2024 week 11 12-team playoff ranking prediction: Can BYU and Indiana reach their conference championships

The College Football Playoff Rankings are almost upon us. Here's how the playoff picture may look when they release
BYU special teams have been excellent all season, and a partial reason for why the Cougars are undefeated.
BYU special teams have been excellent all season, and a partial reason for why the Cougars are undefeated. / Julio Aguilar/GettyImages
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We've made it to November and the landscape of college football is nearly unrecognizable from our preseason expectations. With the likes of BYU, Indiana, SMU, and other party-crashers forcing their way onto the scene, many are baffled at the idea of quantifying each team's value.

Enter the College Football Playoff rankings: the authoritative list of which teams have impressed voters and which teams still have plenty to prove. This ranking is selected via committee, rather than a poll, and will be immune to poll inertia and similar problems that many teams are suffering from under the AP reign.

Indiana and BYU are both unbeaten and face 4 or less games that stand in the way of their direct course to a conference championship game and a bid at the College Football Playoff. The Hoosiers have a weaker schedule than the Cougs, but 9 wins and an impressive margin of victory through the perceivably tougher Big 10 Conference.

But with BYU owning two wins over currently ranked opponents in SMU and Kansas State, it's difficult to say that the Hoosiers would certainly win in a head-to-head matchup.

The new rankings should eliminate all voter bias and instead shift to a different, more vaguely veiled bias that they'll insist isn't present.

This week is the chance for underappreciated squads to jump the blue bloods and big names on merit, rather than brand.

Week 11 College Football Playoff Ranking Prediction

Rank

Team

Reason

Last Week

1

Oregon

Big 10 Champion

1

2

Georgia

SEC Champion

2

3

Miami (FL)

ACC Champion

3

4

BYU

Big 12 Champion

4

5

Texas

At-Large

6

6

Ohio State

At-Large

9

7

SMU

At-Large

N/A

8

Tennessee

At-Large

12

9

Indiana

At-Large

N/A

10

Boise State

MWC Champion

10

11

Notre Dame

At-Large

11

12

Penn State

At-Large

5

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