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00:00And then you started to get a sense on Tuesday as we show you these rankings here.

00:08There wasn't all that many changes.

00:10I mean, we did see Georgia lose, so they plummeted.

00:13Miami lost.

00:15They plummeted.

00:16One of the five remaining unbeatens entering Week 11.

00:19Miami did fall by five spots, and we saw Indiana move up into the top five.

00:24Penn State somehow some way with a loss, and Indiana does not have one still in front of

00:30IU.

00:31BYU up by a few spots.

00:34I said not many changes.

00:36What I meant to say was expected movement based on game results.

00:40We'll talk about game results in just a moment as well.

00:44Perhaps the biggest move, Georgia getting absolutely beat bad in Oxford by Ole Miss,

00:51falling nine spots.

00:52One spot behind the running rebs who moved up by five positions from 16 to number 11.

01:00And again, all of this is important because it's not just the rankings 1-12 or 1-15.

01:07Based on where things are slotted right now, you do see the projected bracket.

01:12So let's show you what that projected bracket would look like.

01:15Oregon is the number one team.

01:17They have the best college football playoff price.

01:20They are the champions currently of the Big Ten in this projected outlook.

01:24They still are co-favorites or around the same price as Ohio State in the conference

01:28odds, and yet they had the head-to-head tiebreaker.

01:31So they get that nod.

01:32Texas, highest ranked team in the SEC.

01:34They earned the opening round by BYU still unbeaten, despite what the oddsmakers might

01:39tell you about the Cougars.

01:41Highest ranked team in the Big 12 in Miami, despite losing and not being undefeated anymore

01:48in the ACC, which SMU is still the highest ranked ACC team at this moment and would earn

01:56that opening round by.

01:57And because Miami fell back in the way that they did, and we had some other movement,

02:03Georgia plummeting by nine spots, Boise State fell back by a spot as well, ranked in the

02:09original top 11 in week one of the CFP rankings, now at number 13, which complicates the process

02:17a little bit.

02:18As we show you those projected opening round on-campus games, and again, the rankings numbers

02:24different from your seed line in a projected bracket.

02:28Ohio State is number two in the country and yet would be the five seed, the highest at-large

02:32team in a projected college football playoff.

02:36Boise State would still be the fifth highest ranked conference champ and would be in that

02:415-12 game, and yet they're ranked 13th.

02:45The other at-large bids look as so, Penn State and Indiana for the top five, Big 10 teams.

02:52They are in those spots hosting college football playoff games.

02:56Penn State would be the sixth seed, Indiana would be the seventh seed, despite their rankings,

03:02and Tennessee would actually be the eighth seed hosting Notre Dame as the Vols are in

03:06front of the Irish.

03:09Indiana and Bloomington hosting Alabama in a college football playoff game, and now Ole

03:13Miss into that 11th spot, both in ranking and in seed line.

03:18So then the conjecture followed the actual rankings.

03:22Well, look at the strength of schedule for Indiana.

03:26It's at 100.

03:27Yeah, they've been whooping everybody.

03:29The only game they barely won was against Michigan, the reigning national champs, who

03:34do not look like that, I understand, but still, Indiana's been blasting everybody.

03:39You want to get mad at strength of schedule?

03:41Look at Miami and Penn State, who do not have those marquee wins, by the way, Miami

03:46did beat Louisville.

03:48Where is it for Penn State, who lost to Ohio State?

03:51So here is my final point, because I think this is going to be very important, as Georgia

03:56would be on the outside of the college football playoff right now looking in, and other SEC

04:02teams, like A&M and LSU, you will hear from people, well, look how difficult the SEC strength

04:09of schedule is.

04:10Yeah, part of that is perceived bias in early season rankings that bolster a Missouri team

04:16that has zero reason to be ranked still at number 23, or the fact LSU has looked awful

04:22and remains in the top 25.

04:26Losses matter.

04:28Wins matter more than losses.

04:31Even if you look okay in a loss against a decent team, you lost the football game.

04:38Losses matter.

04:39Wins will always be supreme.

04:41Remember that as you look at the college football playoff break.

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