A year from now we’ll be discussing what the first 12-team playoff in college football will look like. Who will be in and the cases of the contenders will be made against one another like they are now, just instead with teams rated from 8-15 instead of from 3-7 or so like today.
But in our final year of the four-team College Football Playoff, just who sits with a better case for playoff consideration than others?
Clearly the unbeaten Power Five teams have their own cases but if any are to fall, who is primed to swoop in?
With us being just days from the initial rankings being announced, here’s our best guess at what those rankings will look like Tuesday night.