Adam Burke shares his weekly college football power ratings
The College Football Playoff is set and bowl game matchups are rolling in as we get ready for Army/Navy Week. For this week’s Power Ratings update, I made my changes after the conference championship games and based on the big names that we know of in the transfer portal thus far. Plenty more will come and more players will opt-out of the bowl games as well.
We will have our FREE College Football Bowl Betting Guide out late Monday. We’ll have game previews for every bowl game with at least 72 hours lead time on each game so that we can give the most updated information based on opt-outs, injuries, line moves, etc.
As far as my thoughts on the CFP, it will always and forever be about dollar signs. Florida State could have won by 40 and the Committee probably would have found a way to keep them out. Going undefeated in a Power Five conference is an impressive feat, but the Committee’s function is not to get the four best or four most-deserving teams. It is to make as much money as possible for all the hands in the jar. Florida State without Jordan Travis doesn’t do that in a semifinal against Michigan. Alabama very much does.
I’ve updated my Power Ratings to the extent that I can for this week. We’ll still have opt-outs, transfer portal announcements, coaching changes, and all that, so these aren’t going to be the be-all, end-all numbers for the bowl games. I’ve accounted for what I can and I don’t want to assume any opt-outs, but we know there will be a lot. Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Marvin Harrison Jr., Jayden Daniels, and Malik Nabers are the obvious ones, but they will not be the only ones.