Happy College Football Playoff rankings day!
If bowl season is Christmas for a college football consumer, then the kickoff of #MACtion, combined with our first set of national champion debates, is the Fourth of July.
Every year, the committee meets face-to-face to hash out all of the available statistics in determining which four teams will make the semifinals.
These rankings are fluid with a host of programs reaching the top four but never making a playoff. Oregon, LSU, Mississippi State and Penn State are some of the teams to have an initial ranking in the top four but never compete for the national title.
Every Power Five conference will be represented in the top 10 when the rankings are unveiled. Oregon, USC and UCLA serve as the threats from the Pac 12, while Clemson enters a tough stretch of its schedule to represent the ACC.