CFP Rankings REACTION: Why did Indiana, BYU and SMU get screwed?
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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff rankings (and the election) took place on Tuesday. David Ubben, Chris Vannini and Damien Harris react to the playoff field, Indiana, BYU and SMU getting screwed, the committee's top-25, ESPN's presentation and more.
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Rundown:
- BYU slight & what it means for Boise State (1:30)
- Alabama's in...for now (3:00)
- Will Ole Miss knock Georgia out? (5:30)
- Indiana slander (7:45)
- Explaining the committee's approach (14:15)
- Boise State's terrific start (16:15)
- 5-seed debate (22:45)
- ESPN & confusing playoff presentation (25:00)
- Top-25 breakdown: Where the committee got it right & wrong (30:45)
- SMU disrespect (33:30)
- Colorado's path & tortillas (43:45)
- Which team will rise up? (44:30)
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| 0:48.4 | Damien Harris, the two-time national champion in Alabama, and Chris Vanini. You didn't win any |
| 0:54.0 | national championships, Chris, |
| 0:54.9 | but you are a senior writer at the athletic. Guys, we have a ranking. We have a real bracket from |
| 1:00.6 | the real people whose real opinions actually decide how this is going to go down. Fresh off |
| 1:06.4 | of stiff-arming Florida State. This is the first time we've seen their ranking since then. Let's start with the field, Chris. Let's start with the field. Our number one seed is Oregon, as expected. Number two is Georgia. Number three, Miami. Number four, BYU. That gets into the quarterfinals. I'm trying to do this in the least confusing way possible. It's going to be weird, guys. We're going to get used to it. The 8-9 game is Tennessee and |
| 1:31.8 | Indiana. That'd be in Neeland Stadium. The 512 game would be Ohio State and Boise State. |
| 1:37.9 | Ohio State grabbing that five seed. Despite being number two in the rankings, Penn State would be |
| 1:43.1 | the 710 game against Notre Dame and Texas, Alabama. |
| 1:47.4 | Alabama going to DKR in December in the 6-11 game. |
| 1:51.9 | All right, remember with the bracket, it gets a little weird with the seating. |
| 1:55.7 | Boise State is actually ranked number 12. |
| 1:57.6 | That's one of the more surprising things. |
| 1:59.8 | Chris, what was your biggest takeaway |
| 2:01.9 | to start, I guess? My biggest takeaway is that the real drama of this rankings actually |
| 2:06.5 | comes at the bottom, not the top anymore. Like, I agree. Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, |
| 2:11.4 | there's nothing to say about them really. Like, they make sense. There were where you expected. |
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