Now that we’ve had our first look at the initial release of the College Football rankings for 2022, we have a baseline to work with. And while we’ve seen some zany things by the CFP committee, it does give us something to go by in working out what the ranking will look like each week.
Since we like a challenge, we’ll continue to bang our heads against the proverbial wall each week after all the games and get ahead of what you might see before the next announced rankings. Most days that’ll be on Tuesday, but we’ll get our final look at the CFP rankings that will determine the field on the Sunday after all the conference championship games.
This week three of the top six teams in the first rankings went down. Tennessee lost at Georgia. Alabama fell at LSU. And Clemson was declawed at Notre Dame. On the flip side, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU continued to win and stay unbeaten, undoubtedly near the top of the next CFP rankings.
But enough about the past. Here is how we see things resembling when the second College Playoff Rankings of the 2022 season are released on Tuesday.