The latest set of College Football Playoff rankings won’t come out until Tuesday night, and until then, there will be plenty of debate over which teams belong in the top four.
With the way this season has gone, however, it likely would be wise to wait until the final two weeks of the season — one more in the regular season followed by a chunk of conference championship games — before trying to determine which teams, exactly, belong.
That won’t stop us from prognosticating, however, especially after Michigan State’s victory at Ohio State on Saturday, a game that almost certainly knocked the defending champion out of the hunt while vaulting the Spartans smack into the middle of the conversation.