Texas at 9 and 3 is absolutely alive.

I forgot about that narrative behind closed doors about valuing non-conference opponents.

Teams like Washington and Iowa and USC have been vastly underrated by the AP,

and the committee, I think, is more properly evaluating the Big Ten Conference.

These fans are the best of the country. A day like today is why we love college football.

Welcome into the program. This is Joel Clatcham. I'm Joel Clatt. This show is brought to you by the graduate by Hilton. We very much thank them for their support. Go stay at a graduate. They're awesome in all of these college towns. We've got playoff rankings. Finally, this is always the best time of year. Obviously, we love it when the college football season starts, but this is like the second beginning of the season. I love this moment in time because we get to see something that's real. We all have our takeaways from the AP poll and what we think is, but this is where the rubber meets the road

as the committee gives us their first rankings here, and we got a month left in the season.

And gosh, I'm just reminded, guys, how great the 12-team playoff is.

We knew it last year, and it gave us an incredible month into the season, November, and it's going to do that again.

There's so many teams that are still right in the mix of this thing, and we get that now that

we've got our first playoff rankings. Hey, if you have not subscribed to the show, please go do

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during the week, like to mix it up a little bit. All of you saying, hey, oh, you ran the football fine. No, you didn't watch the film. They did not run the football fine. One 50-yard run at the end of the game does not mean that you ran the football fine during the course of the game against Tennessee. But I digress. Okay, so get down into the comments below and I'll

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and we are there on social media. Let's get into this. Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to

give you the top 25 as they were presented by the committee on Tuesday night. And then I've got

five main takeaways from this first iteration of the committee's rankings. And granted,

we know that this can change and

likely will change at some point, obviously with wins and losses and sometimes just how the

committee feels. Let's face it, like we've seen them move quite a bit in previous years,

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