how could this poll be accurate when Arizona (7-1) ranked 6th, below teams with at the most 3 losses? If you don't go by wins and lost then the saints should be above Green Bay

Amazingly this ranking is far superior to the College Football Playoff poll which reads more like a group of people sitting around pulling names from a hat as opposed to using actual stats etc.

Amazingly this ranking is far superior to the College Football Playoff poll which reads more like a group of people sitting around pulling names from a hat as opposed to using actual stats etc.

Bizarre plot twist highlights latest College Football Playoff rankings

As the College Football Playoff Selection Committee turns, Episode III:

The sport's new serialized soap opera continues to provide interesting Tuesday television that continues to be rife with lapses in logic. In soaps, stars come back to life or have amnesia or split personalities – all sorts of fanciful plot twists. The playoff selection committee now seems to be performing its own jaunt through the absurd on a weekly basis.

In this episode, the committee falls stone-cold in love with the Pac-12.

In one particularly steamy scene, the committee jumped one-loss Oregon ahead of undefeated Florida State for second – and while it might not matter at this moment who is second and who is third, a loss by No. 1 Mississippi State could alter the geography of the entire playoff if it elevates the Ducks to the top seed. (Hello, Rose Bowl as the potential site of the No. 1 seed's semifinal game, instead of the Sugar Bowl.)

"They're very, very close," selection committee chairman Jeff Long said Tuesday night. "It's very thin. … Razor-thin."

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Don't forget the backup plan should pulling names from a hat somehow end in a statistical tie ...

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