As if the action on the field doesn’t give fans enough to holler about, Tuesday night’s unveiling of the first College Football Playoff committee rankings are sure to provide a whole lot more message board material.
Ultimately, of course, that first set of rankings will be largely meaningless. They’ll show us potential paths and possible scenarios, but nothing more until the only meaningful set comes out in December.
We therefore present this edition of Overreaction Monday as something of a preview of howls to come, with the most recent results as backdrop.
Here then are the top five overreactions for college football Week 9:
An unbeaten team will get left out of the playoff
This is the true nightmare scenario for a couple of conference commissioners.