College Football Playoff Rankings Face a Chaotic Week

We get our very first college football playoff show tonight, which is just laughable, Craig, on so many different levels that anything is, if anything, that they actually tell us tonight as far as the top 12 teams who might very well be in the running to make the playoffs this year. And I want everyone to keep in mind when they watch that show tonight that just imagine 24 teams now. Being in contention for a playoff when you see how ridiculous it is going to be here tonight, because you're going to have your top 12 and you're going to have those first four out, Craig. So 16 teams, essentially. And I believe since the start of it now, we've only ever had three teams that were not in the initial top 12 in the poll and then made the playoffs. And those teams, Arizona State did it a couple of years ago because they ended up upsetting and winning the Big 12. And then you had a couple last year with James Madison and Tulane, the other six conferences there. But if you were part of the Big Four and you don't show up in the top 12 tonight, Craig, there's a good chance we won't be seeing you. At least history tells us we're not seeing you in the playoff at all. It doesn't happen. Well, we got a lot of big matchups coming up this week in week 10. I think that last line is the key. Everything that you said before that, no offense, it doesn't matter because this season is on its head in college football, Joe. I don't think, I mean, this is the most unpredictable season in the history of you and I watching college football. So whatever happens tonight, I think it's fun to talk about, but I think it's absolutely meaningless because on Saturday, you're going to get Notre Dame playing Miami. And certainly if Miami beats Notre Dame, Miami's kind of locked in now to a playoff spot. If Notre Dame beats Miami, then Miami probably has to worry about what happens to them if they lose another game between now and the end of the season. But that's just the tip of the iceberg here because LSU plays Georgia on Saturday. And if LSU loses to Georgia, is it Alabama? Am I getting that right or wrong here? Alabama, that's what I meant to say. So if Alabama plays LSU this week, LSU loses to Alabama, LSU is out of the college football playoff in all likelihood. After Saturday, I think we'll get a much better view of where we're headed. Now you can throw up that other graphic with Georgia and Mississippi. My bad on that. If Mississippi was to lose to Georgia, Mississippi in all likelihood will not be in the college football playoff, but if they should win, then it puts Georgia on notice because that would give Georgia their second loss of the season. So, Joe, in the end, Confusing or not for me, for everyone out there, it should be just as confusing because whatever happens tonight is sort of meaningless. The one team that I think that has made the biggest strides in college football this season That is positioning themselves, I don't know how you feel about this, Joe, but they're positioning themselves to be maybe a top five team. I don't know that they're deserving of it, but the way that it's trending is, Joe, UCLA at this point cannot be discounted. We haven't probably talked about them all season long, but here they are, and of course they're going to play USC. And that could be a game that puts UCLA in the top three, Joe, at the end of the season. This is the kind of crazy year that we just couldn't have expected. And then what happens next year, as you mentioned, with the 24 teams that get into the college football playoff, let's be honest, the show is meaningless next year, this time. I'm fine with the college football playoff, but if any show that tells us anything in November, who's the 25th and 26th team that's out, I don't think anybody's going to care next year. But next week, we'll have a much better idea as to who's out and who is in after this week.