4) Wisconsin (with a loss falls to #10 or so)
5) Alabama (not playing)
6) Georgia (with a win easily jumps into top-4, with a loss out of top-10)
7) Miami (11-1, beating Clemson and winning ACC puts them in playoffs. Losing drops them out of the top 10)
8) Ohio St.

Even if Wisconsin loses.. it's set up to let Ohio St. and Wisconsin trade spots. Ohio St. is ranked #8 but if Clemson and Auburn win they're really sitting next to Alabama at #6 by virtue of Miami and Georgia falling.

Before taking Ohio States win into consideration in this scenario.. the ranking really looks like:
1) Clemson
2) Auburn/Georgia
3) Oklahoma
4) Alabama (Did not win division, spot is not locked in)
5) Ohio St (Beat #4 and is Big10 champ, spot is not locked in)

You don't think Ohio St. moves up just 1 spot in the ranking after beating a top-4 team and winning the Big10?

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Posted by Blizzard of Chizz

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Posted on 11/28/17 at 6:57 pm to bmy

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Beating a top-5 team and winning your conference champion is worth 3-4 spots in the rankings

No it’s not. Au beat 2 number 1’s in three weeks and didn’t jump that many spots. No way they jump Osu sitting at 8 over that many teams and into the playoffs. They’ve got 2 losses with one being really ugly. If there was a chance of the committee doing this, they would have found a way to position them closer. Bama and UGA are both sitting at 5 and 6 should any of the top 4 fall.

Realistically, Bama needs AU to beat UGA and another team to lose to get in. If AU loses, the committee will simply jump uga over Bama because they would be conference champs.

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