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Ranking the Rankings
For eight years now, the College Football Playoff selection committee has served up its first set of rankings right around this date. Roughly five weeks later, the committee delivers its last set. Things always change in that interregnum, but not as much as you might think.
In order to figure out how much stock to put in the committee’s opening top 25 when it drops Tuesday night, The Dash crunched some numbers. Here are the findings:
Nineteen of the 32 CFP participants were in the top four in the initial rankings, an average of 2.