There’s been a lot of talk about the first college football playoff rankings, and most of it is wildly premature. There’s still a lot of football left to be played, and the number of ways these games could play out over the next four or so weeks is enormous. We don’t have a lot of data on the way the Committee thinks, and the data we do have is flawed because of turnover in membership, but we have enough to form some educated opinions about what matters to them.
What matters to the Committee
The first and most important factor to the Committee is record.