For 12 weeks there has been speculation about how the College Football Playoff committee will handle assessing teams in this uncertain season.
The teams at the top seemed clear, but that's not always to the case with 13 people sitting down and evaluating several metrics to determine who would be No. 1. Big Ten and Pac-12 teams played half the games of most of the Power Five contenders. Cincinnati made a strong early case about possibly being a contender from the Group of Five given its impressive start and the challenges of other potential champions playing a full schedule.