Coming out of Week 5, there are a few things we know more confidently than we did on Saturday morning: Notre Dame is better than Stanford. Ohio State is just slightly better than Penn State. Florida may be good, or at least on a faster track to good under Dan Mullen than it appeared last month.
When it comes to the College Football Playoff, which we won’t get a measure of clarity on until its first set of rankings are released in four weeks, one of those things—Ohio State’s supremacy—will almost certainly be relevant. Notre Dame’s win over Stanford will likely factor into the equation, and the caliber of Florida may only be notable as a point on the résumés of the teams that have beaten the Gators.