The College Football Playoff committee has released its first top 25 ranking of the season , which is the sport's version of Walmart opening its doors at midnight on Black Friday. Things are about to get ugly, and someone's going to end up bloodied while fighting Oklahoma for a spot in the top 12. In other words, it's the best time of year.

This year, the committee has said it is considering a new "record strength" metric , designed to provide some math-based guidance in the process and to soon replace "game control" as the country's most hated made-up statistic.

Ten weeks into a season filled with a lot of chaos and few seemingly great teams, however, the committee needs all the help it can get. For example, just eight teams in the country have already beaten more than one of the co

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