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The College Football Playoff case for Ohio State, Michigan State and Iowa

Adam Rittenberg looks ahead to the first release of the College Football Playoff rankings, which will be announced on Tuesday at 7 ET on ESPN.

The first College Football Playoff rankings of the season are set to be announced Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN, and it is anyone's guess as to which teams will be voted into the top four. There are 11 undefeateds and nine one-loss teams in the AP Top 25. Many of those teams have legitimate cases for top-four selection. Over the next five weeks, that group will get thinner, but for now we've got the skinny on every serious playoff contender.