My favorite thing the CFP selection committee does is tell us that teams aren't close enough to each other to directly compare them (aka use head-to-head results). But they're the ones who decided to put the teams 3-4 spots apart! No one forced you to do that!

I think it's pretty clear now that Texas has been eliminated from CFP contention. Longhorns down to No. 17. I don't think a top-3 win would catapult them all the way up to No. 10 — which looks like the cutoff point for the last at-large team in this year.

I think it's pretty clear now that Texas has been eliminated from CFP contention. Longhorns down to No. 17. I don't think a top-3 win would catapult them all the way up to No. 10 — which looks like the cutoff point for the last at-large team in this year.

Big 12 has three teams ranked inside the top 12, with Texas Tech all the way up to No. 5.

Big 12 releases a statement from commissioner Brett Yormark, with five CFP-ranked teams: "I am thrilled to see the Big 12 Conference getting the respect it deserves. I said at Big 12 Football Media Days in July that we would earn it on the field, and we continue to do that."

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek: "We will use the conference championship games as another data point to use in ranking our teams. And so it's hard to say if it will move a team up or down, until we really have that data point."

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek on Texas A&M-South Carolina: "From a committee standpoint, I think the second half definitively neutralized the way they played in the first half."

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek on Tulane: "The American is a really good conference this year, a really top-heavy conference. You look at Tulane's schedule and the fact that they have went outside of their conference and played three P4 schools ... winning two of those three games."

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek: "You look at the losses of Notre Dame versus the losses of Alabama, and that was really one of the defining metrics that we used." Highlighted how lopsided the FSU-Alabama game was and how Alabama struggled to run the ball (and still struggles to).

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek says the selection committee spent the most time on the grouping of Oklahoma-Notre Dame-Alabama.

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek says that it hurts Virginia that Louisville fell out of the rankings (and that was one of their best wins).

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek says that Oregon is still getting credit for beating Penn State even though the Nittany Lions fell off after that game.

Here are the teams providing the buffer between No. 9 Notre Dame and No. 13 Miami: Alabama, BYU and Utah. Even if Miami keeps winning impressively — style points! eye test! — may not be able to jump enough teams to get H2H to come into play.

Here are the teams providing the buffer between No. 9 Notre Dame and No. 13 Miami: Alabama, BYU and Utah. Even if Miami keeps winning impressively — style points! eye test! — may not be able to jump enough teams to get H2H to come into play.

I had projected Tulane as the highest-ranked Group of 5 team because I thought the committee would give 'em credit for going and scheduling three P4 games (and winning two of them). Tulane also had strongest SOS and strength of record metrics of the four G5 teams I considered

The committee really likes keeping all the undefeated teams in order, then the one-loss teams, then the two-loss teams, huh? Bodes well for Oregon, which is No. 7 despite not having a win vs. the current Top 25.

CFP chair Hunter Yurachek says that Notre Dame and Miami have not been compared to each other because they are not close enough to each other in the rankings. Mentions Miami has two losses to unranked teams & Notre Dame has two losses to teams in committee's top 13.

New CFP rankings: 1. Ohio State 2. Indiana 3. Texas A&M 4. Georgia 5. Texas Tech 6. Ole Miss 7. Oregon 8. Oklahoma 9. Notre Dame 10. Alabama Seed #11 will be the ACC champion, #12 USF (G5 champion)

Alabama fell to No. 10 -- behind Notre Dame. That FSU loss (the worst loss of the top contenders) pulling them down now that they have two losses.

11. BYU 12. Utah 13. Miami 14. Vanderbilt 15. USC

Miami climbs up to No. 13 ... getting closer to Notre Dame's spot. Will head-to-head come into play?? It's tiebreaker for teams that get compared directly to one another.

Tulane will be the highest-ranked Group of 5 team in this week's rankings (as I projected).

16. Georgia Tech 17. Texas 18. Michigan 19. Virginia 20. Tennessee

21. Illinois 22. Missouri 23. Houston 24. Tulane 25. Arizona State

OK, we'll get the new CFP rankings here in just a few minutes.

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Ole Miss survives Florida and improves to 10-1.

Good night, Texas.

Ole Miss went for it on fourth down inside the five and failed. Florida trails by three with 2:42 to go.

Really nice drive from Gunner Stockton and co.

That Brent Venables defense, man.

Daniel Hill is a stud.

The ACC is so funny this year.

wait did Ty Simpson fake the stumble?

Iowa leads USC, 14-0, early in the second quarter. Oklahoma leads Alabama, 10-0, late in the first.

Michigan wins at Wrigley with a walk-off

South Carolina is going to take a 30-3 lead over No. 3 Texas A&M into halftime. A total disaster of a first half for the Aggies.

Marcel Reed is broken.

MARCEL REED STOP THROWING IT

Nyck Harbor is so much fun to watch.

Nightmare game for Texas A&M continues.

I wonder if Notre Dame took that 100-point comment as a challenge.

Texas A&M has had some bruuuutal drops today

Look at Wisconsin!

South Carolina 17, Texas A&M 3 👀👀