The final College Football Rankings

Here are the final College Football Rankings. As predicted, Penn State and Michigan get to watch from the comfort of their living rooms. Clemson got leapfrogged over Ohio State for the number two spot by the committee (but not in the other two polls), but that means little, since #2 and #3 play each other anyway. Either way, Washington is the team which will get first crack at mighty Alabama.

For the record, Sagarin's computer rankings conclude that Michigan should be in, Washington out. Indeed, Michigan is rated a lot higher than Clemson or Washington. So it goes. By the way, the computer gives Penn State no love at #14.

One of our readers proposes:

NCAA TRUE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF

We will let the conferences deal with the idea of ‘strength of schedule’ issues and assume the Conference Champion has already demonstrated it is the best in the region.

We start with the Top 5 Major Conferences: ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12, and SEC. Add to that list a sixth conference to be picked by the committee from among the other conferences. Now we add two more teams (wildcards). These two teams can be picked from among all the teams that are left. This is a situation that would solve this year’s argument of Ohio State vs Penn State. Penn State would be in because they are the Big 10 Champs, Ohio State could have one of the wildcard slots.

Now our grid is full – 8 teams. How the play is determined will be up to the committee; they will lay out who plays who in the next 4 games (the semi-finals – 4 Bowls) which will produce 4 winners. The committee then decides who plays who in the next two games (the Finals – last 2 Bowls).

That leaves two teams to play head to head … wait for it… on the Saturday before the NFL Super Bowl, and we call it – The NCAA College Super Bowl, played in one of the major bowl locations (Orange, Rose, Cotton or Fiesta)!!!

This not only maintains the ad revenue that already is, but it increases it because of the extra publicity coming from a TRUE college football playoff system – ad revenues can be higher!

Scoop's note: Assuming two wild cards as you propose, Michigan and Ohio State would both get in as the two strongest non-conference champs, and the bonus conference champ would be 13-0 Western Michigan, the only top-twenty team from outside the Power Five.

(1) Are you OK with three teams from one conference?

(2) Are you OK with Western Michigan losing to Alabama about a thousand to nothing in the first round?