First release of 2022 CFP Rankings

VMredraider12 · Nov 2, 2022

First rankings of the season were unveiled last night. For those interested, thoughts?

2024 College Football Rankings - ESPN

Find the 2024 NCAAF rankings on ESPN, including the Coaches and AP poll for the top 25 NCAAF teams.

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1-- Tennessee
2-- Ohio State
3-- Georgia
4-- Clemson
5-- Michigan
6-- Alabama
7-- TCU
8-- Oregon
9-- USC
10-- LSU
11-- Ole Miss
12-- UCLA
13-- Kansas State
14-- Utah
15-- Penn State
16-- Illinois

Several thoughts I had:

1) Over the next four weeks there are multiple head-to-head matchups between teams in the top 16 of the initial rankings. So these rankings will really have an opportunity to sort themselves out between now and the conference championship week.

#1 Tennessee vs. #3 Georgia (This week)
#6 Alabama vs. #10 LSU (This week)
#6 Alabama vs. #11 Ole Miss (Next Week)
#14 Utah vs. #8 Oregon (11/19)
#9 USC vs. #12 UCLA (11/19)
#5 Michigan vs. #2 Ohio State (11/26)

2) It would be cool to see things shaken up with some different blood in the finals this year. Lots of new faces with opportunities in front of them to play their way into the final four this year. Tennessee, Oregon, USC, TCU, UCLA, Ole Miss, Illinois... All are still in play for a shot to win a conference title. Who knows who sneaks in if one or more of those teams run the table. Hopefully we can spoil TCU's fun this weekend.

3) ACC is the only conference without multiple teams in the top 16.

4) Lots of bold opinions of TCU being behind Alabama. I'm not mad about it though.

5) Really thought Michigan would have been 4 and Clemson 5... But it will sort itself out in several weeks.

6) Thought the committee got it right on Tennessee/Georgia to this point in the season even though I expected it to be reversed. Again, it doesn't matter since it will be decided on the field this weekend.

RedRaiderFan5 · Nov 2, 2022