Predicting the first College Football Playoff rankings for 2021

The playoff committee has a huge day ahead of them in deciding the order of these teams.

The best time in college football is finally here, as the College Football Playoff committee is going to sit down and rank the top teams in the nation.

While Texas likely could have been in this discussion several weeks ago, they went on to lose three consecutive games against ranked opponents. Had they won those, it would have given them one of the strongest resumes in the nation.

Even with Texas being eliminated from just about everything except a bowl game at this point, there are multiple Big 12 teams that are actually in contention for the playoff. The committee does not announce their choice’s until Tuesday evening, so I took the liberty of predicting how the teams will stack up in their initial rankings.

The playoff committee has their own set of factors that determine these rankings, so I will best try to emulate that. If these were my personal rankings, they would look a bit different.

Does Oklahoma crack the top four?