This penultimate ranking could arguably be the most compelling, revealing regular-season College Football Playoff top 25.
Period.
If there is one upset in this weekend's conference championship games -- most realistically if TCU loses to Kansas State in the Big 12 championship or USC loses to Utah in the Pac-12 title game -- it would open the door to controversy, allowing one-loss Ohio State and two-loss Alabama back into the conversation. The scenario in which both TCU and USC lose lends further credence to the possibility, which is why how far Ohio State falls is the biggest question for the committee.