Now ask yourself..if SMU had a loss to NIU, where would they be ranked? https://t.co/59cUs3cgy8

— Taylor Tannebaum (@TaylorTannebaum) November 8, 2024

Looks like SMU is the better team. They would make a great bowl matchup!

5 ranked teams lost in Week 11 👀

Which team's CFP ranking will change the most? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/UAHrlmHGij

— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 10, 2024

Ole Miss will move up the most. ISU, Pitt, and Clemson will fallout. Miami should fall far, like behind SMU far. They'll try to make ACC and Big12 one trick ponies. Big12 needs BYU to win out and lose to either Colorado or KSU who also win out to get 2 teams. Not impossible but unlikely.

For ultimate chaos. Georgia and Bama need another loss. UGA is playing like that will come. Army needs to win out and upset ND. Boise St needs to win out. Indiana needs to beat OSU and then lose to rival Purdue. All very unlikely but this season has been fun and full of chaos so far.

I had my doubts about LSU being a power again. Their loss seems to confirm that. Once again, the are ranked too high because of past years instead of 2024. Another SEC mediocrity that is underperforming compared to expectations.

Undefeated Teams Strength of Schedule via ESPN

Oregon- 45th
BYU- 54th
Indiana- 100th
Army- 133rd

— CFB Home (@CFBHome) November 10, 2024

SEC
- Texas A&M only plays one of the other Top 6 (Texas)
- Georgia plays FOUR of the other Top 6 (Texas, Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee)

Big 12
- Colorado plays just one, (Loss to Kansas State)
- Kansas State plays ALL FIVE of the other Top 6 (four road games) https://t.co/bPp1hddINV

— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) November 10, 2024

Swing and a miss

Preseason teams are no longer ranked

#9 Michigan (5-5)
#10 Florida State (1-9)
#12 Utah (4-5)
#16 Oklahoma (5-5)
#17 Oklahoma State (3-7)
#21 Arizona (3-6)
#22 Kansas (3-6)
#23 USC (4-5)
#24 NC State (5-5)
#25 Iowa (6-4)

— CFB Home (@CFBHome) November 10, 2024

The networks deserve all of the scorn, but this season is off the charts. pic.twitter.com/5shQdc5YU1

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) November 10, 2024

I am not convinced Texas can win on the road against Arkansas And A&M. SEC is still up for grabs.

BYU is lucky Utah just didn't feel like winning yesterday.

Oregon won't be tested again until the conference champ game. Unless that is Indiana. Have to wait 2 weeks to see who Indiana really is. It's very possible that only 1 of Indiana's 12 opponents will play in a bowl game.

This season is Awesome!

Three of the current Top 5 in the AP Poll - Texas, Penn State and Indiana - do not have a win over team currently ranked. No. 9 Alabama has more (4) than the current Top 5 has combined (3).

— Chris Fallica (@chrisfallica) November 11, 2024

The resumes of SEC CFP Contenders. What stands out? pic.twitter.com/GR3L0ij81L

— Jon Tweets Sports (@jontweetssports) November 10, 2024

Bro think football has an NIT tournament https://t.co/1BPZcVL215

— Transfer Portal (@NCAAPortal) November 10, 2024

Missouri, South Carolina, and LSU should not be ranked. Same old story of inflating SEC school resumes

The Big 12’s leader beat the ACC’s leader and we didn’t even know it at the time pic.twitter.com/Y6VwgyBWjJ

— theTCUburner 🐸🌵 (@theTCUburner) November 10, 2024

SEC SEC SEC....MOVE OVER IT IS BIG 10 BIG 10 BIG 10 TIME pic.twitter.com/uLoLha4UQd

— CFB Home (@CFBHome) November 12, 2024

I would love to see the Big10 dethrone the SEC

I would love to see both dethroned.

boognish_bear said:

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SEC SEC SEC....MOVE OVER IT IS BIG 10 BIG 10 BIG 10 TIME pic.twitter.com/uLoLha4UQd

— CFB Home (@CFBHome) November 12, 2024

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It helps the B1G when there have been only 2 matchups between their top 4 teams, with only one more on the schedule.

SECSECSEC has 4 great teams, 4 good-but-not-great (Ole Miss, Aggy, LSU, Mizzou), 2 pretty good (SC, Vandy), 2 ok but not great (Arky, OU) and 4 also rans (Fla, UK, Auburn, MissSt)

B1G has 4 great teams, 1 good but not great (Wiscy), a whole bunch of ok but not great (USC, UCLA, Wash, Iowa, Minn, Neb, NW, Illinois, Mich, MichSt, Rutgers, Maryland) and one really, really bad (Purdue).

.@CFBPlayoff rankings

1-Oregon
2-Ohio St
3-Texas
4-Penn St
5-Indiana
6-BYU
7-Tennessee
8-Notre Dame
9-Miami
10-Alabama
11-Ole Miss
12-Georgia
13-Boise St
14-SMU
15-Texas A&M
16-Kansas St
17-Colorado
18-Wash St
19-Louisville
20-Clemson
21-South Carolina
22-LSU
23-Mizzou
24-Army…

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 13, 2024

Projected @CFBPlayoff 1st round spreads via @_Collin1

(5) Ohio State -19 (12) Boise State
(6) Penn State Pk (11) Ole Miss
(10) Alabama -5 at (7) Indiana
(8) Tennessee -2 (9) Notre Dame

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 13, 2024

ESPN crew said the committee said margin of losses and who they are to is heavily considered in these rankings, and that's helping a two-loss Ole Miss team where each loss is by three points.

Well, SMU's one loss is to the undefeated No. 6 team in the nation by three points...

— Lia Assimakopoulos (@Lassimak) November 13, 2024

Same old crap: lame excuses for ranking SEC teams higher than they deserve while not applying the standards equally.

The playoff discussion went from "there are too many teams" to "we can't leave out GEORGIA" in record time https://t.co/ZbNAdqYnnR

— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) November 13, 2024

Penn St at 4 is atrocious. No one in their right mind believes that. Jane's Franklin simply can't win big games. He's being rewarded for beating nothing but scrubs.
ND in just sets the precedent that they can schedule 12 cupcakes and get in eveb with a horrific loss.

If Georgia has not earned a spot, definitely leave them out! Same with Bama and every other SEC and Big 10 team. That would make it a real playoff system instead of a fake one: the ESPN Blue Blood Invitational.

Right now Ole Miss has a better record & deserves to get in more than Georgia does. They beat Georgia! But that is their only significant victory. There are other teams that should be in before Ole Miss.

This late in the season, every undefeated team should be in the playoffs before teams with lesser records, simply because it's so difficult to achieve that regardless of schedule. I say this although Indiana & Army, for example, don't have any "great" wins. BYU should be in even if they lose in Arlington (assuming they win the next 3).

The problem with all these rankings is that it's so subjective and it's impossible to remove all biases.

IowaBear said:

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Penn St at 4 is atrocious. No one in their right mind believes that. Jane's Franklin simply can't win big games. He's being rewarded for beating nothing but scrubs.
ND in just sets the precedent that they can schedule 12 cupcakes and get in eveb with a horrific loss.

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There are plenty of teams that deserve to be in the playoffs before ND. I would even include Texas. Funny that their arguably best win is over Vandy!

SMU is getting totally screwed.

If Paul Finebaum is not happy, then it's working...

historian said:

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Same old same old:
The ESPN Blue Blood Invitational is a joke and will remain one until all conferences ard treated equally, with none getting guaranteed terms in besides the champ.

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To be fair, have you reviewed ISU's, Colorado's, and Arizona State's resumes? Whew there is a lot of garbage there.

There's a lot of Garbage on NDs resume. I mean look at the resume if PSU and Indiana… neither have beaten anyone with a pulse.
Indianas SOS is sub 100! That's a 2-3 loss team if they had played teams with pulses. I said it before and I'll say it again. If/when they get bulldozed in Columbus they should be out

So more than half the SEC is in the top 25? Including a 3 loss LSU team that lost to god awful USC and just got their doors blown off at home?

Harrison Bergeron said:

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SMU is getting totally screwed.

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Totally predictable

Aberzombie1892 said:

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historian said:

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Same old same old:
The ESPN Blue Blood Invitational is a joke and will remain one until all conferences ard treated equally, with none getting guaranteed terms in besides the champ.

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To be fair, have you reviewed ISU's, Colorado's, and Arizona State's resumes? Whew there is a lot of garbage there.

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True. There are a lot of garbage resumes in every P5 conference. That's the dads every year Butbut dermis more pronounced in 2024.

GoodOleBaylorLine said:

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So more than half the SEC is in the top 25? Including a 3 loss LSU team that lost to god awful USC and just got their doors blown off at home?

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The ESPN Blue Blood Invitational will always favor the SEC, elevating teams unworthy of it.