The first College Football Playoff Rankings will be released late Tuesday night, but we do not want to wait that long to get a taste of how the CFP Selection Committee will be ranking the top 25 teams in the nation. As such, we are here to predict what the top 25 will look like this evening. It is a warmup act for the warmup act, which are all of the CFP Rankings releases before the final one following conference championship Saturday. In this space, we try to emphasize the same criteria the committee uses. That will be difficult because, as we have learned, the committee can be all over the map. Sometimes, it decides that head-to-head matters; sometimes, it doesn’t. Sometimes, strength of schedule matters; sometimes, it doesn’t. Sometimes, relative dominance matters; sometimes, it doesn’t. Sometimes it’s about game control — whatever that is — or recency bias or…
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