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Miami a good bet for No. 1 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings, but then what?

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM · 1 min read
Miami a good bet for No. 1 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings, but then what? — Key Biscayne Sports news

AP No. 1 Miami is undefeated and hard to deny as a team that deserves top seeding when the College Football Playoff selection committee releases its first set of rankings for the season Tuesday night.After that, who knows?Will the 13 people on the panel take a harder look at the other two undefeated teams in — AP No. 3 Utah and No. 5 UCLA — and reward them for somehow avoiding a loss in a season that has produced nothing but upheaval in the upper reaches of the Associated Press Top 25?Or will the committee follow the AP voters and place Georgia at No. 2 despite its loss last month to an unranked Auburn team that fell by 30 to Ole Miss just last weekend?About the only guarantee for this reveal, which doubles as programming for ESPN — the network that's paying roughly $1.3 billion this year to televise the playoff, starting in December — is that somebody will end up unhappy.This is the first of six weekly rankings for the playoff, culminating on Dec. 6, at which time the 12-team bracket

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