2024 college football rankings: Ohio State, Indiana move up; Clemson falls


The College Football Playoff selection committee can't mess this up — I think. The Oregon Ducks have been the No. 1-ranked team in this space for weeks, and the CFP ought to follow suit. And behind Oregon should be another Big Ten powerhouse, whose only loss happened to be to the Ducks: Ohio State.

It's what the committee will decide to do with Indiana that interests me. The selection committee is tasked with selecting the 12 best teams while using a criteria that revolves around winning the conference championship, winning marquee matchups during the regular season, and then, what each of the voting members believes is the best team — scoreboard be damned. If Georgia had five losses but was deemed one of the 12 best teams in the sport by this committee, they'd make the CFP.

Indiana is unprecedented here, though. The Hoosiers are 9-0 for the first time in program history. They've scored 41 or more points in six of their last seven games, and their margin of victory against teams looks like one we'd expect from Georgia, Clemson or Alabama in the previous era of the CFP. However, Indiana has never benefited from the blue-blood tax exemption that they have. In fact, if you dressed the Hoosiers as Penn State, you're much more likely to believe that's a team capable of winning the national title than the Penn State program we've seen in the James Franklin era...Read full article

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