Sports media world reacts to polarizing first College Football Playoff ranking

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It’s Election Day, but it’s also College Football Playoff ranking reveal day, and strong reactions to the ranking would have you believe those are the results determining the future of democracy.

On Tuesday night, Rece Davis hosted ESPN’s College Football Playoff rankings show alongside Booger McFarland, Greg McElroy, and Joey Galloway. As the show wore on, the CFP selection committee reestablished itself as a polarizing group.

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The undefeated Miami Hurricanes earned the No. 1 spot, and that is the only team everyone agreed deserved its particular spot on the list. McElroy cracked that the selection committee went “1-for-25,” and Davis identified this year’s initial ranking contains “more questions and more head-scratching moments” than any initial ranking he remembered covering.

Davis couldn’t hide his shock when he revealed Utah at No. 3 and Notre Dame at No. 11, and Galloway tried to wrap his head around Alabama slotting in at No. 5.

“There are a couple of instances where it looks like head-to-head matters a little bit with BYU and Notre Dame, and then a couple of instances in which they do not,” Davis said.

McFarland took up for Texas, as the Longhorns came in at No. 7 despite solid wins over Ohio State, Tennessee, and Ole Miss, while McElroy took issue with Ohio State seemingly getting punished for scheduling difficult opponents.

More broadly, McFarland said, “I just think right now, the committee’s kind of getting their feet wet. What are we gonna value? How’s this season gonna play out? Because, right now, there’s really no rhyme or reason why some of these teams are ranked where they are.”

Galloway pointed out that the truth will emerge after this week’s slate of games, which features several head-to-head matchups amongst Top 25 teams. ESPN’s Peter Burns shared that opinion on X.

“I would not be surprised if, after this weekend, there is great movement on this board,” Galloway said. “I almost feel like there has to be movement on this board. And so we are in the beginning, and I’m a little bit more bothered than normally in Week 1. But I have to tell myself there’s a lot of games left to be played, and if your team isn’t where you want them to be, there’s time for them to work their way into it.”

Check out some of the best reactions to the initial College Football Playoff ranking from across sports media below:

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