College Football Playoff resume rankings: Florida checks in at No. 2 as SEC claims top five spots — SkimNews
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- SEC teams claim all top five spots in CBS Sports' College Football Playoff resume rankings, with Florida checking in at No. 2
- SEC's move to a 9-game conference schedule lends greater weight to the league's annual claim of superior schedule strength ahead of the first official CFP rankings, due one month from Saturday
- The CFP selection committee introduced a new "record strength" metric in 2025 and has heightened visibility on an existing conference-opponent strength metric, but the public has not been told how heavily either weighs
- CBS Sports created "resume scores" using the CBS Sports 138 as baseline, assigning each game outcome a value between -1 and 1 based on how likely a typical No. 25-ranked team would be to win
- Texas' Week 4 road win at then-No. 17 Tennessee added 0.67 to the Longhorns' resume score, since an average No. 25 team would be expected to lose that matchup 67% of the time
- 4-0 Georgia ranks behind 3-1 Ole Miss in resume score because the Bulldogs have yet to face a team currently in the top 45 of the CBS Sports 138, while Ole Miss is 2-1 against such opponents
Why it matters: With the first official CFP rankings a month away, the SEC's top-five sweep and new 9-game schedule give the selection committee more quantitative grounds to reward schedule strength, while the "record strength" metric and CBS Sports' resume-score system (-1 to +1 scale) offer a public-facing way to compare teams across imbalanced slates rather than relying on win-loss record alone.
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