College Football Playoff: 3 takeaways from final rankings of 2018
By Zach Bigalke
The final College Football Playoff rankings are now filed by the selection committee. Here are three takeaways from the last CFP Top 25 of the 2018 season.
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Selection Sunday has arrived, and the College Football Playoff selection committee has locked on their four choices for this year’s playoff as well as the rest of the Top 25 in the final rankings of the regular season.
The top three spots all went to undefeated teams, centering the suspense on who would land the No. 4 spot. In the end, the selection committee opted to tab Big 12 champion Oklahoma for the last bid to the semifinals.
The top six offered few surprises, as the powerhouses of college football swept the first half-dozen positions. With six new members on the committee from the group that picked last season’s College Football Playoff teams, nothing substantively changed in the way the panelists parsed the narrow differences between the leaders.
The debate continues to swirl, though, as pundits ponder whether the numbers matter more than the eyeball test. In the end, the committee had to balance rewarding what happened over the course of the regular season with the nebulous concept of picking the four “best teams” in the FBS.
What did we learn from Selection Sunday and the announcement of the top six? Keep reading for three takeaways from the College Football Playoff picks for the top four and the next teams up.