TCU Moves to No. 4 in College Football Playoff Rankings
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American Football Field Yard Lines IStockPhoto/ Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The TCU Horned Frogs moved to No. 4 in the latest Colllege Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday.
While the Mississippi State Bulldogs (9-0) still are sitting at No. 1, TCU (8-1) is followed by Florida State (9-0) and Oregon (9-1) with the Crimson Tide ranking No. 5 in the playoffs.
“For the third consecutive week, the committee looked at the overall body of work, their strength of schedule, and looked at the number of top 25 wins,” committee chairman Jeff Long said.
“TCU has two top 25 wins and Baylor has one. And TCU’s loss is a top-10 loss. When you put all those factors together, we still think at this time TCU has a better resume and was voted that way ahead of Baylor,” he continued.
“I think that our rankings will send the message,” Long added. “We as a committee are not charged with sending messages to coaches and ADs about scheduling, but I think it’s likely that they will see the factors that we take into account and will take a message from that. But we’re not trying to send a message about that. We’ve said from the beginning, strength of schedule, total body of work, complete resume, all of those are factored into this decision to get to the best four teams and rank our 25.”
Mississippi State will travel to Alabama (8-1) on Saturday.
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