It's time to seriously start thinking about the College Football Playoff.
The first set of CFP rankings are due on Tuesday and if history is any guide then they'll look different than the AP Top 25. What you see on Sunday in the latest edition of the AP poll is not what you're going to see on Tuesday during the CFP rankings show.
With that in mind, here's our attempt to decipher what the committee is thinking. A year ago we correctly predicted the top seven teams in the committee's first set of rankings and got the exact spot correct for five of those seven teams.