The College Football Playoff Committee is set to release their initial rankings today at 7 PM ET. While many fans will be interested to see where their team lands in the rankings, only 6 or 7 really matter. Those are the teams that feel like they have a legitimate claim to being in the top 4 of the polls, which are the only rankings that matter.
The committee showed in 2014 that they were not afraid to buck against the common trends and would rank who they felt deserved to be there. AP Polls and Coach’s Polls be damned, the committee operated under their own rules.