Update of CFB

Week 9 has passed and that means the official College Football Playoff rankings have been released. Very exciting. For the preseason and the first 8 weeks, the only official rankings have been AP and Coaches’ poll and while those polls are quite significant, but with the introduction of the College Football Playoff ranking those polls have no value and are put in the backseat and now the true rankings us the CFP. The opening CFP ranking this season had quite a bit of controversies that I will cover as I go over the whole rankings.

1. Alabama: No surprises here. In the AP and Coaches Poll, Alabama has consistently had over 95% of the #1 votes. Unbelievably strong team led by Dark Lord Nick Saban. Probably going to win their fifth championship in the last eight years.
2. Clemson: Both AP and Coaches’ Poll had Michigan at #2 and Clemson at #3 so this was quite a surprise to many but not too concerning. Known for close games but always somehow coming out with the win
3. Michigan: See above, and Michigan has unbelievably high points forced per game and low points allowed but that is due to relatively weak schedule and the relentless of their coach, Harbaugh.
4. Texas A&M: Big controversy here, in the other polls they’re ranked at #7, due to their 19 point loss to Alabama. Many people think #4 is a huge overestimation of the team and blames it on “SEC Bias”, pollers inflating SEC teams’ ranks due to name-recognition.
5. Washington. Most people think this team should be ranked top 4 due to their undefeated record and solid performance in almost all of their games.
6. Ohio State. Ohio State was ranked top 2 for the whole season until their recent loss to at the time unranked Penn State. Most people think this loss should have dropped Ohio State to lower but due to the Big Ten’s recent domination, “Big Ten Bias” has been a term thrown around by many.
7. Louisville. Louisville and Clemson are rivalling this season for domination of the ACC, Louisville has been dominating their schedule besides the loss to Clemson which in most people’s minds means Clemson should be above Louisville but I don’t know how strong that is. Louisville absolutely dominated both Florida St. and NC St. who both went very close with Clemson. I suppose the rest of the season should even everything out. Hopefully.
8. Wisconsin. Definitely the best 2-loss team in the country, to at the time #2 and #3 Michigan and Ohio State. They don’t control their own destiny at this point in the time but they have a chance of winning their relatively easy half of the Big Ten so that could help their case later.
9. Auburn. Seen as a bad team early in the season, even being the reason for the firing of LSU's coach, Les Miles. Now after some crazy blowouts of solid SEC teams they are very respected (*cough* SEC Bias *cough*).
10. Nebraska. Overrated in my opinion, seen as shaky throughout the whole season, went surprisingly close with Wisconsin though so that helps their case.
11. Going to stop here, because rankings get much more shaky after this point and are much less significant. Two weeks later this will be much more hype due to closeness to the CFP. Thanks for reading, hope you understand a bit and are excited for more.