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With conference championship games in the books, the attention now turns to the release of the final selection committee rankings for the 2024 season and the bracket reveal for the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff. But while those committee members will debate in a conference room on the merits of teams fighting for seeds, byes and home-field advantage, the sport’s oldest authoritative voice for ranking college football teams still needs to weigh in one final time before the bowl season begins.
Since 1936, the AP Top 25 poll has been a constant that connects college football’s present to its past. Its voters have ballots that are made public each week, and they spend much the first two months of the season helping fans understand the landscape when it comes to the top teams in the country. Those voters will be asked to fill out their ballots once again after conference championship Saturday, and so while the movement within the rankings might be minimal, we can project the changes coming out of conference championship Saturday and take note of how those adjustments might also be reflected in the final CFP Rankings.
Voters will, of course, face the same dilemma regarding how to rank both a two-loss Georgia team that won the SEC championship in an overtime thriller and the SEC runner-up, Texas, who also has two losses but both are to the Bulldogs. They must also figure out where to place Penn State after a narrow defeat to the No. 1 team in the country, and they will also get their chance to weigh in on the Boise State-Arizona State debate as both programs are vying to be among the top four conference champions in the eyes of the selection committee.
So with a reminder that we’re predicting how those AP voters will handle the…
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Author : Chip Patterson
Publish date : 2024-12-08 06:20:00
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