Iowa athletic director Gary Barta, chairman of the College Football Playoff committee, conducted a teleconference Tuesday night after the committee released its initial rankings of the season.
Here is the Q&A, along with my take on each issue raised.
Barta: “Well, the first rankings for the 2020 College Football Playoff season are behind us. The committee really enjoyed getting together. Before I talk about those rankings, I'm just going to state the obvious. The committee came into this year knowing it was going to be different, knowing that as we were talking the last two days we were comparing teams that had played three games to teams who had played as many as nine.