The first installment of the College Football Rankings are about to come to a television or streaming device near you on Tuesday night, and we’re all waiting to see what the CFP Committee does, and then hear them do the song and dance afterward to tell us why they ranked teams the way they did.
Since the inception of the committee process of ranking teams, let’s just say nobody has really figured how and when the group of folks that take up the boardroom in Grapevine, Texas will utilize certain parts of the criteria they all told us would be used.
But, to be fair, it’s hard to rank teams that have such razor-thin differences in resumes which is why we’ve clamored for expansion at the onset. But hey, what do we know, like most things these days, it’s clearly all political so we’ll just move on.
Despite it all, there are some things that we’re waiting to see when the rankings are unveiled because — like it or not — it does give the whole process a base moving forward. You kind of want to be positioned well at the onset to have a chance at the end.
Here are five things we’re looking for from the College Football Playoff Rankings on Tuesday.