When it comes to the College Football Playoff rankings, no one knows more of what they playoff committee is thinking than ESPN’s Heather Dinich. It’s her job.
Dinich has worked for ESPN since 2007 and has been the exclusive reporter for the College Football Playoff since it began in 2014. She is the only reporter that has exclusive access to the committee and its members throughout the six weeks before it announces its final rankings, which this year will be on Dec. 8.
The CFP’s first rankings for the 2019 football season will be released on Tuesday and Dinich is already in Dallas talking to the committee, trying to get an idea of what its first rankings might look like.