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College Football Power Rankings · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: To go over this college football stuff a couple of
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  different perspectives. Most of the major websites and publication type
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  things update their college football playoff rankings the teams that
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  are most likely to get in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: For years and years, I mean several years, we would
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  look at the bowl projections every week. I've scarcely even
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  glanced I think one time I looked at a bowl
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  projection list. This is all about the playoff, obviously, unless
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  you're in the G five league and the chances of
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  you getting into the playoff are slim.
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  Speaker 2: But we've talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: There's been more conversation about the G five teams this
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  season and ever before because there's going to be a
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  slot for a G five team in the playoff. So
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  that's why we're paying more attention to who Army plays
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  and who Navy. And by the way, pretty big G
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  five game this week in Memphis, Memphis against North Texas
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  and both teams looking to stay out of near the
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  top of the American Conference race. But anyway, there's different
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  perspectives on this. Heather Dinnich is the longtime writer college
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  football writer for ESPN. She is deep in the weeds
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  all the time and listen, and she's really really good,
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  and she's very very well connected with the playoff committee.
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  They respect her. So she finds out and unearths little
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  things here and there and goes to all that. Well,
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  she projects the top twelve because it is, after all,
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  a twelve three playoff. Now she offers the disclaimer, and
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  I think it's a good thing that she does because
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  people could get really confused, and they might get confused anyway,
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  but she offers the disclaimer. As she ranks the top
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  twelve teams for the playoff, she says expected to be
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  reconfigured because remember the top four Power four conference champions
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  received buys anyway, So she could rank three SEC teams
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  in the top four, but only one is going to
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  get a buy out of that top four. The conference champion,
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  ever wins that conference championship game in Atlanta, will be
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  the one that draws that on December seventh. All right,
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  So nevertheless, this is how she's ranking them right now.
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  Speaker 2: Number one. Yeah, it's Texas still number.
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  Speaker 1: One, and because as she says, Texas is a strong
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  case with a true road win at Michigan. You hear that,
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  those of you who are discounting that win at Michigan
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  and now a neutral site winning in Trival, Oklahoma, they're
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  also looking the part of an sec A national title contender.
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  But then she points out the do Oregon is coming
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  up fast. But what she says about Texas in her
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  category and her paragraph why they could be here in
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  the playoff, She says the long words disman rival Oklahoma
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  with no hint of an upset, adding what could be
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  a win against a second ranked opponent to their resume
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  in addition to Michigan. Even if neither are here's this
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  is an important thing people need to understand. Listen to
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  these words and I quote even if neither Michigan nor
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  Oklahoma are ranked on selection day, as long as both
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  opponents finish five hundred or better, the committee will still
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  consider them respectable wins, and a non conference road win
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  in ann Arbor is still better than what multiple other contenders.
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  Speaker 2: Have in their non conference lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me also add this too, Oklahoma better win
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  this week against South Carolina. If the Sooners don't, I'm
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  here to tell you, Cameron Parker, the only definite win
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  I see on the Sooner's remaining schedule after this week
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  is Maine when they play them on Cupcake Week. Other
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  than that, they's nothing guaranteed with that finishing schedule they have.
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  And if that happens and he lose that game in
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  hot Coon, they're staring five and seven square in the face.
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  But if they beat South Carolina at the very least,
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  they'll get BAWL eligible with the win over May and
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  that would actually help Texas. But of course, as long
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  as Texas is remaining undefeated, it doesn't really matter that
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  much anyway. So it said, oh, you enter the game
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  ranked in the top twenty and both defensive and special
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  teams efficiency, and Texas was able to run the ball
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  against the Sooners and out gain them four hundred six
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  to two hundred and thirty seven toty yards, So that's
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  important to be there. And then she adds the paragraph
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  why they could be lower than where they're ranked, which
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  is number one. Oregon now has one of the best
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  wins in the country and a case for the top spot.
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  The committee would also respect the Ducks road win at
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  rival Oregon State, which is foreign too and the committee,
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  and the victory against Boise State is probably a win
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  against a ranked opponent. Some Committee members might think the
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  Ducks have better wins than Texas.
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  Speaker 2: And can make a case for it. And then she.
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  Speaker 1: Has a third category call need to know it says
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  the selection committee considers injuries to keep players as part
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  of its protocol, so some of their conversation about Texas
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  would include the play off quarterback win viewers. He overcame
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  a sluggish start with a sack on the first playing
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  an interception on his first pass to help Texas win
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  after sitting out a month because of an oblique injury.
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  Texas coach t Sarkisian has made it clear there's no
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  quarterback controversy with backup arch Manning, and Saturday's game was
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  evidence of the committee the long words have two quarterbacks
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  who can win. So Texas is number one. She has
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  Oregon number two, Penn State third. Okay, there's two Big
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  ten teams there, so remember one of them would not
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  be in the top four. Oh Ohio State fourth. That's
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  three Big ten teams in the top four. Then she
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  has Georgia number five, so Texas is playing in Georgia.
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  It's the number one versus number five ranked team in
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  the country in the AP pole and also in her
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  college football playoff rankings. Alabama is six, Miami seven, Clemson eight,
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  BYU nine, and Boise State ten. But as she points out,
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  obviously there's going to be shuttling around on that deal,
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  especially in the top four as that goes there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, in addition to that one thing that again.
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  Speaker 1: I read multiple articles and takes and watch videos of
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  different people who cover this beat of college football and
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  the playoff extensively. Scott Dortman is the guy who writes
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  for the Athletic and what he does is he does
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  what's called a contender check. And what he does with
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  that is he ranks the top one and two lost teams.
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  So Texas isn't in this thing obviously, the top one
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  and two lost teams. He has three categories. The first
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  one is called well positioned. Number one in the well
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  positioned is Ohio State. They're five and one. Number two
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  is Clemson at five and one, three is Georgia at
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  five and one. Fourth is Texas A and M at
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  five and one. Fifth is Tennessee at five and one.
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  Six is Alabama at five and one. Seventh is LSU
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  at five and one. Sensing a pattern here, there's all
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  sec there. Notre Dame is eighth at five and one,
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  So there's a top eight with well positioned. The second
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  category is called have something to prove. Number nine is
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  Missouri at five and one, Tennis Illinois at five and one,
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  eleven is SMU at five and one, twelve is Duke
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  at five and one, thirteen, Kansas State at five and one, fourteen,
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  Arizona State.
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  Speaker 2: Five and one.
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  Speaker 1: He writes, no matter what happens the rest of the season,
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  the Sun Devils have put together a remarkable turnaround from
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  last year's three.
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  Speaker 2: And nine campaign. Remember how close Texas State was to
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  beating them.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech is in that category at fifteen at five
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  and one, Nebraska is sixteen at five and one, EYRACU
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  seventeen at five on one. Now here's the third category.
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  It's called two loss teams with a faint heart beat.
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  Eighteen Ole, miss at five and two, nineteen, Iowa at
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  four and two, twenty Arkansas at four and two, twenty one,
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  Colorado at four and two, twenty two, Oklahoma at four
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  and two have the faint heartbeat. Oh and then he's
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  got a two loss code red, which is Wisconsin at
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  four in two at twenty three, Michigan at four and
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  two at twenty four, Utah at twenty five at four
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  and two, Boston College at four and TUO twenty six,
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  Cincinnati four and two at twenty seven, Rutgers at four
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  and two twenty eight, Vanderbilt four and two at twenty nine,
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  in Virginia four and two at thirty. He also adds
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  Louisville at four and two at thirty one, in Georgia
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  Tech at five and two at thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: I would put Oklahoma in the Code RED. I think
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  Vanderbilts better than Oklahoma. I'm more afraid that Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's got a better win. Texas has to play them
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  there in Nashville. Coming up a week from this weekend
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  min how things can change during the course of a
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  college football season. We'll be back to wrap Abour number
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  two on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.