Well, here we are, less than a week removed from Ohio State football’s third-straight loss to Michigan. Being that it’s Tuesday late in the season with just the conference championship games to go, it also means we have to suck it up and see how far the Buckeyes fell in the latest College Football Playoff rankings.
There’s still one set of rankings to go after this weekend, but it doesn’t look good for the Buckeyes, who fell to No. 6, behind another one-loss team, Oregon.
As always, the CFP committee seems to prioritize what it wants to use as the rationale for rankings when they simply believe they should be based on the eye test. However, at least it faces the music after each rankings reveal to discuss what into the decisions to place teams in the order that they appear.
That’s exactly what happened on the conference call following the latest rankings, and since we are are part of all that fun, we like to bring to you what Executive Director Bill Hancock and committee chair Boo Corrigan had to say about the process of ranking teams.
Here is everything they said about Ohio State following the fifth set of rankings that have set the baseline for what we’ll see after all the dust has settled this weekend.