Texas A&M fans will be watching closely tonight as the final CFP committee rankings before Selection Sunday are set to be revealed. This is the most uncertain that the Maroon and White faithful have been since the initial rankings came out: once the Aggies were set at three, there were some faint hopes for a move up, but things have been pretty static.
That third overall ranking, of course, was itself a flashing warning light for the way the committee was going about this process. Despite promises that Strength of Record measures would be taken into account by the committee after this past offseason, the committee has not followed any accepted SOR metric— nor, indeed, any accepted SOS metric— in their evaluations of A&M vs the teams above them.