The 2023 college football season is getting long in the tooth with just a few weeks left in the regular season before the conference championship games and the last set of College Football Playoff rankings that will determine who plays for a national title.
Ohio State is, of course, right in the mix as one of the few remaining unbeaten Power Five teams, but Georgia, Michigan, Penn State, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Florida State and Alabama will have a say in who are the final four teams that hope to end things in Houston on Jan. 8.
We gained our first look at the College Football Playoff rankings last Tuesday. Yes, Ohio State was ranked No. 1, mainly because of the body of work it has put together with wins over a couple of top 15 teams. However, each week will change the résumé of all the teams because of how intertwined and complex like opponents, wins over ranked teams, close losses and the eye-test play into whatever the CFP committee is looking at.
Each week, we’ll dive in and give it the old college try to peer into the crystal ball and give our opinion on what the latest CFP rankings could look like. Yeah, we were pretty good at it last week, predicting the top six teams in order. We will not promise that will be the case every week, but we’ll do our best.
Here’s a look at what we think the top 25 of the College Football Playoff rankings might look like when we get our second release on Tuesday.