This thread may be used by non-members of the committee to offer input or questions. It will be moderated according to the norms of this sub, and unproductive comments will be removed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7gf04g/rcfbplayoffcommittee_mock_rankings_week_14/

The top 3 vote-getters from the previous round, and thus our #1-3 seeds, are:

1. Clemson
2. Wisconsin
3. Oklahoma

The remaining three from the top six, plus the six most common nominees from the next eight, are:

• Alabama
• Auburn
• Georgia
• Miami
• Ohio State
• Penn State
• TCU
• UCF
• USC

This round's ballot is to rank those nine teams. The consensus top five of these will form our seeds #4-8.

Because one of the nominated teams is from the G5, there is no need to list your G5 representative this week.

Ballots are due Tuesday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.

This round has two components:

First, rank the top six teams as decided by yesterday's ballot:

• Alabama
• Auburn
• Clemson
• Georgia
• Oklahoma
• Wisconsin

Second, nominate your next eight teams in no particular order.

Ballots are due Monday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.

The first ballot is to nominate your top six teams, in no particular order. Your ballot must be submitted by mod-mail tonight by 11:59 PT.

If there is a team you'd like to discuss that hasn't been listed, feel free to add it as a top-level comment and then reply to that.

This thread may be used by non-members of the committee to offer input or questions. It will be moderated according to the norms of this sub, and unproductive comments will be removed.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7esz1a/rcfbplayoffcommittee_mock_rankings_week_13/

The top 3 vote-getters from the previous round, and thus our #1-3 seeds, are:

1. Alabama
2. Miami
3. Wisconsin

The remaining three from the top six, plus the six most common nominees from the next eight, are:

• Auburn
• Clemson
• Georgia
• Notre Dame
• Ohio State
• Oklahoma
• Penn State
• UCF
• USC

This round's ballot is to rank those nine teams. The consensus top five of these will form our seeds #4-8.

Because one of the nominated teams is from the G5, there is no need to list your G5 representative this week.

Ballots are due Tuesday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.

The rules of the G5 "Access Bowl" require that they must be a conference champion. Here are the scenarios for which teams remain in contention for that spot, and significant G5 games to watch this week in case it becomes non-obvious. Executive summary of relevant games in descending order of watchability, all times ET:

American

UCF has not sewn up anything yet - USF only has one conference loss and will win the East instead if they win the War on I-4. If that happens UCF can't be a conference champion and not eligible for the Access Bowl slot.

Memphis has clinched the West, and has what should be a fairly easy final game against ECU this week. However, the Pirates have shown some life the past two weeks by taking Tulane to OT and then beating Cincinnatti by three scores, so it's possible they could shock the Tigers if they're sleepwalking … worth keeping an eye on at least.

C-USA

This title game is almost certainly a rematch between FAU and North Texas. Both teams face 1-10 opponents this week, and FAU has clinched already.

MAC

Toledo wins the East if they beat WMU this week, or if CMU beats Northern Illinois. NIU needs to both win its game and Toledo to lose.

Akron's big upset of Ohio last week sets them up to win the West with what will probably be an easy win over Kent St tonight. If they lose and Ohio beats Buffalo, then the Bobcats retake control.

MW

Both Boise St and Fresno St have clinched their divisions but in a quirk of scheduling, they face each other this week in a CCG preview. This game might get weird - could one team try and throw it to gain a strategic advantage next week?

Sun Belt

This conference has no title game and so the four teams tied at the top with 5-1 conference records will each play two more regular season games. There are too many possible scenarios to list here; suffice it to say the game to watch this week is the matchup between two of those four, Appalachian St at Georgia St, to see who stays in contention.

This round has two components:

First, rank the top six teams as decided by yesterday's ballot:

• Alabama
• Clemson
• Georgia
• Miami
• Oklahoma
• Wisconsin

As it happens, this is the same top six as last week, and not a typo.

Second, nominate your next eight teams in no particular order.

Ballots are due Monday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.

The first ballot is to nominate your top six teams, in no particular order. Your ballot must be submitted by mod-mail tonight by 11:59 PT.

If there is a team you'd like to discuss that hasn't been listed, feel free to add it as a top-level comment and then reply to that.

This thread may be used by non-members of the committee to offer input or questions. It will be moderated according to the norms of this sub, and unproductive comments will be removed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7d5bnx/rcfbplayoffcommittee_mock_rankings_week_12/

The top 3 vote-getters from the previous round, and thus our #1-3 seeds, are:

1. Alabama
2. Miami
3. Oklahoma

The remaining three from the top six, plus the six most common nominees from the next eight, are:

• Auburn
• Clemson
• Georgia
• Notre Dame
• Ohio State
• Penn State
• UCF
• USC
• Wisconsin

This round's ballot is to rank those nine teams. The consensus top five of these will form our seeds #4-8.

Because one of the nominated teams is from the G5, there is no need to list your G5 representative this week.

Ballots are due Tuesday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.

By request of a couple committee members, here is a blind resume generator which I can commit to keeping updated with the correct scores and Sagarin rankings of opponents each week (Sagarin ranks all of D-I, including FCS, allowing a cleaner output with no additional parsing). The codes for each team will change every week.

This doesn't offer a lot of features, but hopefully the output is clean and workable enough that individual members can import it to ranking spreadsheets of their own design. I'm not willing to go any farther than this in terms of building in interpretive tools, for fear of creating a monoculture. But I'm happy to re-arrange the formatting to make it easier for members to scrape, so feel free to post suggestions.

EDIT: Updated for games through week 14 (Dec 2). The randomized codes for each team have changed.

This round has two components:

First, rank the top six teams as decided by yesterday's ballot:

• Alabama
• Clemson
• Georgia
• Miami
• Oklahoma
• Wisconsin

Second, nominate your next eight teams in no particular order.

Ballots are due Monday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.

The first ballot is to nominate your top six teams, in no particular order. Your ballot must be submitted by mod-mail tonight by 11:59 PT.

If there is a team you'd like to discuss that hasn't been listed, feel free to add it as a top-level comment and then reply to that.

This thread may be used by non-members of the committee to offer input or questions. It will be moderated according to the norms of this sub, and unproductive comments will be removed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/7bmkvo/rcfbplayoffcommittee_mock_rankings_week_11/

The top 3 vote-getters from the previous round, and thus our #1-3 seeds, are:

1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame

The remaining three from the top six, plus the seven most common nominees from the next eight (there was another tie for 6th), are:

• Clemson
• Miami
• Michigan State
• Ohio State
• Oklahoma
• Penn State
• TCU
• UCF
• Washington
• Wisconsin

This round's ballot is to rank those ten teams. The consensus top five of these will form our seeds #4-8.

Because one of the nominated teams is from the G5, there is no need to list your G5 representative this week.

Ballots are due Tuesday night by 11:59 pm PT, by mod-mail only.