We have two more robust weekends of college football in conference play before the playoff selection committee convenes for the first time this season to deliver its initial top 25 rankings. That's going to give us an idea of how much emphasis is being placed on record strength and quality wins relative to respective scheduling and what schools in position need to do moving forward to find a spot in the 12-team bracket.

For the first time in the expanded playoff era, the selection committee will rank teams Nos. 1 through 12 independent of five auto-qualifiers as conference champions and seven at-large picks. Last season, the four highest-ranked conference champions received first-round byes, but this time around, the committee determines by its own discretion who to place in those c

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