Another week has passed, and once again, the college football landscape has been largely devoid of chaos near the top of the rankings.
That’s not to say that the upsets didn’t give a great effort on Saturday of Rivalry Week, the final week of the regular season. We saw No. 1 Georgia win by a single score, while No. 4 Washington got a game-winning field goal at the horn in the Apple Cup, and No. 8 Alabama managed a miraculous game-winning touchdown on 4th and 31 with under a minute remaining in the Iron Bowl.
Elsewhere, No. 5 Florida State survived, while the No. 6 Oregon Ducks blew the doors off of No. 15 Oregon State in the Civil War. Meanwhile, the biggest result was between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan, where the Wolverines won The Big Game for the third straight season.
That now leaves us with an interesting question for the College Football Playoff committee — where do they rank the Buckeyes?
You could argue that with their resume and their close loss to the No. 3 Wolverines, they are the best one-loss team in the nation, surpassing the Ducks. However, should the committee rank Ohio State ahead of Oregon, it won’t matter much in the final rankings, since the Ducks play Washington in the Pac-12 title game, while Ohio State will be sitting at home.
It will be an interesting decision to watch play out. In the meantime, here’s our prediction for how the rankings will look after Week 13: