College Football Playoff Rankings: Hits and misses in Week 10 ranks

The selection committee released their initial College Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday night. Which teams did they get right and which did they get wrong?

After nine weeks of debate, the College Football Playoff committee provided clarity into who the top teams in the country are right now, sort of. The reality is the top four and the top 25 will be continually debated every week until the final rankings are released following the conference championships games. Then they’ll be debated some more.

Finally time for the first release, this is what how the top 25 teams stacked up in the committee’s eyes on October 30:

College Football Playoff rankings entering Week 10

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. LSU
4. Notre Dame

5. Michigan
6. Georgia
7. Oklahoma
8. Washington State
9. Kentucky
10. Ohio State
11. Florida
12. UCF
13. West Virginia
14. Penn State
15. Utah
16. Iowa
17. Texas
18. Mississippi State
19. Syracuse
20. Texas A&M
21. NC State
22. Boston College
23. Fresno State
24. Iowa State
25. Virginia

Alabama isn’t much of a surprise, neither was Clemson at No. 2. The top teams had already risen to the top of the AP poll at the midpoint of the 2018 season. The rest of the list, after No. 2 on, is where the initial ranks got most interesting. Here are the biggest hits, misses and questions following the Week 9 ranks.