When I was working on the formula for these resume rankings over the offseason, there was a reason I decided to use the rankings of teams at the time the games were played when computing top 25 wins versus the most current set of rankings. It was because using the rankings at the time of the game proved to be more accurate predicting what the College Football Playoff Rankings looked like at the end of the season. While the order wasn’t always correct, the final resume rankings nailed the top four in each of the first four seasons of the College Football Playoff except for one. It was the 2014 season in which both TCU and Baylor finished ahead of Ohio State. TCU was No. 3, Baylor was No. 5 and Ohio State was all the way down at No. 9. For those who remember the 2014 CFP, Ohio State’s…
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