Five compelling things to watch for during the first release of the College Football Playoff Rankings

The first installment of the College Football Rankings are about to come to a television or streaming device near you on Tuesday night, and we’re all waiting to see what the CFP Committee does, and then hear them do the song and dance afterward to tell us why they ranked teams the way they did.

Since the inception of the committee process of ranking teams, let’s just say nobody has really figured how and when the group of folks that take up the boardroom in Grapevine, Texas will utilize certain parts of the criteria they all told us would be used.

But, to be fair, it’s hard to rank teams that have such razor-thin differences in resumes which is why we’ve clamored for expansion at the onset. But hey, what do we know, like most things these days, it’s clearly all political so we’ll just move on.

Despite it all, there are some things that we’re waiting to see when the rankings are unveiled because — like it or not — it does give the whole process a base moving forward. You kind of want to be positioned well at the onset to have a chance at the end.

Here are five things we’re looking for from the College Football Playoff Rankings on Tuesday.

Where will Ohio State be?

Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback C.J. Stroud (7) throws the ball against Penn State Nittany Lions during the second quarter of their game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio on October 30, 2021. Credit: USA TODAY Sports

Okay, we’ll start with the most obvious for readers of this here free website. Where will the committee have Ohio State as the baseline going forward? Will it be up in the top four, or further down just inside the top ten? You have to think the loss to Oregon might have the Ducks ahead of the Buckeyes for now in a nod to the head-to-head matchup, but we’ll just have to wait and see. The Buckeyes’ best win is over Penn State,…

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