On Tuesday night, the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee released the third installment of its rankings for the 2025 season.
After a big win over Virginia Tech, Miami continued the arduous task of
climbing their way up the rankings and into a potential at-large berth spot for the Playoff bracket. They flipped places with Utah, moving up to #12 while the Utes moved down to #13.
Let me get this out of the way now: the CFP committee is full of shit, and they are clearly pushing an anti-Miami agenda. It’s been in the broadcasts of games across the sport, and in every iteration of the CFP rankings this season. Regardless of the committee chair, they have been clear and coordinated in their alignment against Miami, and have eschewed precedence and logic to continue to rank Miami lower than they should be.
Let me be clear: I am upset that Miami lost games. But that does not excuse the committee’s malfeasance in this year’s rankings.
If you haven’t caught on yet, I’m fucking pissed.
The Full CFP rankings, including the first few teams on the outside looking in. Miami, by virtue of being the highest ranked ACC team at present, is in the bracket projection. This will likely change next week if Miami is not in the ACC Championship Game.
There’s a lot going on here. Miami will need to win out to get to 10-2 and put themselves in position for a CFP berth, but that path continues to be open. Miami’s path to the ACC Championship Game depends on more specific results going their way, but that’s another story we’ve already discussed on the site.
According to our friends at FanDuel Sportsbook, Miami started the season at +4000 to win the National Championship. That number fell to +2200 and +1600 through the month of September, hitting a low of +900 after Miami beat Florida State. Following the 2nd loss of the year at SMU, Miami’s odds ballooned to +12,500.
With the blowout win over NC State, Miami’s odds to win the National Championship have continued to improve week over week. Two weeks ago, the number was Miami +10000. Last week, the current number: Miami +6500. This week, the number improves slightly to Miami +6000. A small step is a step, so I’ll take it.
This is the hope for Miami. Oklahoma is ranked 2 places ahead of Alabama, whom they beat last weekend head to head. So, if we’re using that precedent as the foundation like Hunter Yurachek said, then Miami should be ranked at least 2 spots ahead of Notre Dame at the end of the year if both are 10-2 after the regular season. Again, that’s what Yurachek said is the standard process and valuation of a H2H win. So, prove it, committee.
The committee lied. Of course they did; anything to keep Miami ranked lower than they should be.
If you thought these games were impactful in the past, this has reached critical levels now. There is one game to go in this regular season. The job for Miami is the same now as it was previously: go win.
The goal is clear: get to 10-2 and force the committee to do the right and logical thing and put Miami in the CFP over a Notre Dame team they beat head to head this season. Period. Nevermind. The committee is corrupt, engaged in a broad and coordinated campaign against Miami, and will do whatever they need to in order to cheat Miami out of their rightful ranking ABOVE A TEAM THEY BEAT.
There is literally nothing else to do but go win. It won’t matter to the committee, but let’s go do it anyway.
