The first College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings of the season finally arrived Tuesday night, letting us know Ohio State, LSU, Alabama and Penn State would duke it out for the national championship if the season ended today.
It doesn't, of course. There are still four more weeks in the regular season plus the all-important conference championship week in early December. Not a darn thing has been set in stone.
But the selection committee's Top 25 did tell us a few important things.
Perhaps the most surprising revelation was that Clemson debuted at No. 5, even though that doesn't matter in the slightest.