Since the College Football Playoff selection committee released its final rankings , much of the attention has been on which schools didn’t make the 12-team field as opposed to the ones that did.

Most glaringly, Miami jumped Notre Dame on Selection Sunday, despite neither team playing over the weekend and the Irish being ranked ahead of the Hurricanes in each of the previous five weeks.

But that wasn’t all.

BYU (11-2) fell one spot after losing the Big 12 conference championship game in blowout fashion, while playoff-bound Alabama (10-3) did not move in the rankings despite suffering the same fate in the SEC title game.

Texas (9-3) missed the playoff despite boasting three top-10 wins. Two of its losses came against top-five opponents, including Ohio State in the type of non-

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