When the College Football Playoff selection committee begins to meet in November, it will have had 10 full weeks of games to evaluate, helping to determine its first top 25 ranking.
After participating in a recent mock selection exercise in Grapevine, Texas, designed to help the media understand the process in selecting the new 12-team field, there are three main inflection points worth underlining in the committee's process:
Who gets the first-round byes (awarded to the four highest-ranked conference champions)?
Who will host the first-round games (awarded to the higer ranked schools)?