College Football Playoff First Look – Interesting

The first College Football Playoff rankings came out last night.    There was nothing really all that surprising about the first one.  We here at BiglakeSports have maintained that the first ranking still comes out too early.   It really does not make much difference this week where teams are slotted.    Next week or the week after would be a better time to start the rankings.  We still think that the College Football Playoff is doing it wrong with only four teams getting in.  Here is our post about what we think should happen.

I have no issues with how the rankings have played out this week.  There is still a lot of football to be played and things are going to change.  I thought that they would have Alabama at number one and Georgia at number two.  The College Football Playoff committee has them reversed.  It really does not matter which one is at which spot.  They are going to play in the SEC Championship game so that will work itself out.  The question will be.  If they play a close game will the both get in.

Could Three of the Power Five be Left Out

This year we could have a very interesting scenario.  Where two teams get in from one conference and an independent.  With Georgia, Alabama and Notre Dame all possibly taking a spot.  That would only leave one spot for the other four conferences to get a team in.  Is it really possible that the College Football Playoff would leave three of the power five conferences out of it?  Since they claim that they are looking for the four best teams it really is possible.

If that does happen it will set off a firestorm from the three conferences that get left out.  The way things are sitting now it looks like the PAC-12 and the BIG-12 have the biggest chance then of getting left out.  The third one out would come down to the BIG-10 and the ACC.  If this does happen.  It will be the catalyst to expand the playoff to 6 or 8 teams.  The key there would be that the five conference champions would all get in.  That would ensure the power 5 conferences are represented.

But we are getting off track here.  This is about the rankings that were released this week.

College Football Playoff Top Six

1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame
4. Clemson
5. Oklahoma
6. Ohio State

I have no problem with how this has played out so far this year.  Georgia and Alabama should be one and two.  It really does not matter where they are at this point.  They will play in the SEC Championship game and the true number one will be there.  If it is a blow out game the loser will be out.  If it is a close game then that will change things.

Not really  sure how good Notre Dame is.  They could be really good.  Their only loss came to number one Georgia by one point.  Granted it was at home but still would be considered a good loss.

Clemson is somewhat questionable with their lone loss coming to Syracuse.  This in my mind would be a bad loss.  But since Clemson has more wins against other ranked teams the committee felt that was enough to put them in the fourth spot.

Oklahoma beat Ohio State head to head.  They should be ahead of Ohio State.  The lone Oklahoma loss comes against Iowa State.  Which at the time looked like a bad loss.  Iowa State has shown to be a much better team than people though they would be this year.

Any of the teams past sixth are a crap shoot right now.   They still have time to move up.  Next week will give us more to go on.