College Football Playoff Rankings FORGET BYU, Colorado

correct. It’s the 5 highest ranked conference champions that get autobids with the four highest ranked getting byes. That guarantees a G5 but doesn’t limit it to only one.

It’s conceivable that a P4 school could lose 2 of their non-cons like Utah did in 2021, lose two more in conference but still qualify for their CCG. Then that 4 loss team wins the CCG. In the old model, the committee could still take TCU over 3 loss K State in 2022. Now the committee has to either take the 4 loss champ or decide if two G5 champs were more qualified.

In that scenario, the committee could still take the higher ranked P4 school that lost in the CCG as an at-large which would satisfy each of the P4 conferences getting at least one entrant while not having to award a 4 loss team a bye. And quite frankly, if you were the #6 or 5 seed, wouldn’t you love getting rewarded with a G5 in the 2nd round instead of a top P4?

Yep. This is not a meritocracy/charity letting just ANY 5 conferences in. It’s still P4 tilted (with a bone thrown to 1 G5 team – usually) and the SEC and B1G filling most of the at-large spots. There is no way 2 G5 teams get in to shutout a P4 conference (presumably Big 12 or ACC).

I could see a one-loss or even two-loss (CU) Big 12 team being the only representative with B1G being the #1 seed, SEC #2, one-loss Miami #3 (but ranked 6-8), and one-loss Boise State #4. That would leave Big 12 champ likely in the 10-12 range, not even having a home game 1st round. I think for the Big 12, it’s either the #3 (undefeated BYU), or lower seed (1-loss BYU or two-loss CU or any other outcome).