Queue up the hand-wringing, teeth-gnashing, and mean tweets again because the second edition of the 2021 College Football Playoff Rankings have been released. There weren’t too many changes at the top, but probably the most controversial was the decision to move Michigan ahead of Michigan State despite both teams having the same record and same basic resume with the head-to-head win the Spartans own over the Wolverines.
If you just scratched your head and threw your arms in the air, welcome to the club.
Aside from that though, and the fact that Ohio State moved up a spot into the top four, most of the rest of the reveal was rather ho-hum. However, it should be noted that Purdue jumped up to No. 19 after not being in the rankings at all last week. So, yeah, OSU gets another shot to knock off a ranked opponent this weekend, so there’s that.
As he does every week, College Football Playoff Selection Committee chair, Gary Barta, met with the media to discuss what went on in the meeting room of the committee and why it made some of the moves that we saw. We’ve got all of those comments for you so that you can dissect it a thousand different ways and poke as many holes in the arguments and answers that you desire.