COLUMBUS – The College Football Playoff selection committee apparently agrees with what a growing number of people have been saying after 10 weeks of the college football season: that Ohio State is the best team in the country.
(1) Ohio St. (8-0, 5-0) vs. Maryland (3-6, 1-5)
Sat., Nov. 9; Ohio Stadium (Noon/FOX)
In the committee’s first weekly ranking, Ohio State is No. followed by LSU, Alabama and Penn State.
Next up are defending national champion Clemson, Georgia and Oregon.
The 13-member committee will produce four more sets of rankings each Tuesday before the only ones that really count come out on selection Sunday, Dec. 8.
The top four in the selection committee’s initial rankings have never all reached the semifinals in the playoff’s five-year history. Eleven of the 20 teams that started in the top four of the CFP rankings have reached the playoff, but, oddly, never the team ranked third.