It seems the College Football Playoff Committee wasn’t completely honest, even with itself.
The committee announced that this season it would place more of an emphasis on strength of schedule when choosing and ranking the 12-team field for the playoff, but the Oklahoma Sooners’ placement in the first CFP rankings of the season on Tuesday completely went against the committee’s own rule.
Sooners shunned behind Notre Dame in first College Football Playoff rankings
The Sooners came in at No. 12 in the initial CFP rankings, essentially as a bubble team considering they would be the second program left out of the 12-team field based on the current rankings if the season ended today.