Believe it or not, we’re steaming ahead in this whole college football season thing, and the first College Football Playoff Rankings are less than a week away. Teams such as Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Clemson and Tennesee want to win their conference but have an ultimate goal of reaching the College Football Playoff.
Now that we’ve seen teams for eight weeks, we have a much better idea of what the pecking order is. And while we still have to wait a few days for the official CFP rankings, we can throw darts at pictures of teams ahead of that to give you an idea of what they might have looked like after Week 8 if we got an early peek.
Now, keep in mind that the CFP committee has rotating members and it seems every year, it prioritizes its framework of guidelines differently, so we’ll probably tear it all up when the rankings are released, but we like a good challenge.
Here’s our look at how we believe the College Football Playoff rankings might have played out if they were released after Week 8 as a part of all the fun. It’s not necessarily how we would rank the teams, but how we feel they might have lined up according to past history with this CFP committee.