Is There A Better Way To Handle The College Football Playoff Rankings?

If you've been living under a rock this week, the newest release of the College Football Playoff Committee Rankings have generated a lot…A LOT of controversy.

Fans are frustrated, teams are frustrated, conferences are frustrated. And even the committee doesn't seem to know what the actual criteria and basis for their decision-making actually is.

READ: What Is The True Criteria For The CFP Rankings This Season? Who Knows, The Committee Is Just Winging It

Team rankings seem inconsistent week to week, and the explanations are even more ridiculous. The Alabama Crimson Tide, for example, moved up three spots with a dominant win over Mercer, while the Georgia Bulldogs moved up only one spot with an impressive win over Tennessee. 

The backlash to just that one decision alone has carried throughout the week, and comments by Selection Committee Chair Warde Manuel didn't help. Manuel after the rankings came out gave an unsatisfactory answer to why the rankings had Georgia and say, Texas, where they do.

"Well, obviously Georgia has a very good win at Texas, but as the committee analyzed the body of work of Texas versus where Georgia is at the present time with two losses, even to top-25 teams, we came out that Texas was still a very strong team deserving of a 3 seed. They have a top-5 defense. Quinn Ewers is leading one of the top passing offenses in the country," Manuel said. 

"We just looked at them and thought — and came out, I should say, with them at 3. It’s nothing against Georgia. Georgia is a great team, but they did struggle against Ole Miss at Ole Miss but had a great win this past week against Tennessee. We will continue to monitor both teams and see how it goes in the next few weeks."

There has to be a better way,