Second College Football Playoff Rankings Arrive Tonight: Texas Stood No. 7 in the First List, and Georgia Is Projected to Take No. 1
The committee's second top 25 is revealed at 8 p.m. Central on ESPN — with Miami's loss reshuffling the top, and 7-2 Texas carrying four ranked wins into the reveal.
AUSTIN — The College Football Playoff selection committee reveals its second top 25 of the season tonight, Tuesday, at 9 p.m. Eastern (8 p.m. Central) on ESPN, one week after a first list that put Miami (FL) first and Texas seventh.
That first list, released Nov. 3, seeded Miami (8-0) at No. 1, Georgia (7-1) at No. 2, with Utah third and Indiana fourth as the top four seeds. Texas entered at No. 7 at 6-2, its standing built on wins over the teams the committee ranked No. 10, No. 12 and No. 13 — and held back by an unranked loss to Oklahoma.
The Longhorns have helped themselves since. Texas won 34-20 at Missouri on Saturday to reach 7-2, and USA TODAY's projection for tonight's list credits Texas with four wins over teams expected in this week's rankings — Ohio State, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Missouri. The same projection, and it is a projection, not the committee's verdict, moves Georgia to No. 1 after Miami's loss, leaves Utah a clear No. 2, and keeps Texas at No. 7.
What tonight settles is only the order of the moment: the committee publishes a fresh ranking each week, and only the final one picks the 12-team field in December. Texas's remaining road runs through the SEC — at LSU on Saturday, Arkansas at home on Nov. 21, and a closing trip to Texas A&M. The desk files tonight's actual reveal in tonight's later cycles.
