This football season continues to throw curveballs at teams and fans. Early this morning, it was announced the College Football Playoff committee will push back its initial rankings one week.
The @CFBPlayoff has pushed its first ranking back one week to Nov. 24. Decision was made to give committee another week to watch games, now that they know all 10 FBS leagues playing this fall. Selection Day still Dec. 20. Only four weekly rankings this year before the big one. 😲
— Heather Dinich (@CFBHeather) October 1, 2020
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Multiple games have been postponed or canceled, the SEC just started play this past week and the Pac-12 and Big Ten have yet to get going.
Data points this year will be much more difficult for the committee to assess, and just yesterday the committee announced it will keep the playoff field at four. What we do know is there will be four weeks of rankings, with the last on Dec. 20.
This really doesn’t change much for the Irish, as long as Brian Kelly’s group keeps winning, its a moot point. The key is to keep winning.
It has been a wild ride so far for college football in 2020. Don’t expect that to change much as we approach the seasons conclusion.