You make like or despise or completely not care about the College Football Playoff committee rankings. I have an interest and am curious about how “right” they get things. (There is a serious contention that they don’t care about getting it right, just about creating profitable matchups in the post-season.)
I have my own method to rank teams. I use a modified Elo ranking system which is non-discrete. The system considers strength of schedule, home field advantage, and point spreads up to 19 points (because anything beyond that is functionally meaningless). The systems first ranks the FBS, FCS, Division II and Division III divisions based on cross-division games. The system then ranks the conferences, using the division rankings as the starting points, based on cross-conference games. The system then ranks the teams based on all games.
Disclaimer: I am a BYU fan. I have thought all season that BYU should be ranked above Miami and Boise State. You can see that my math does not agree with me. Here are the rankings based on my system.
| Rank | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oregon |
| 2 | Indiana |
| 3 | Ole Miss |
| 4 | Texas |
| 5 | Georgia |
| 6 | South Carolina |
| 7 | Notre Dame |
| 8 | Tennessee |
| 9 | Alabama |
| 10 | Florida |
| 11 | Miami |
| 12 | Ohio State |
| 13 | LSU |
| 14 | Army |
| 15 | Arizona State |
| 16 | Penn State |
| 17 | Missouri |
| 18 | Texas A&M |
| 19 | Memphis |
| 20 | Kansas State |
| 21 | BYU |
| 22 | Vanderbilt |
| 23 | Minnesota |
| 24 | Clemson |
| 25 | Iowa |