The College Football Playoff selection committee's first top 25 rankings release is Tuesday, Nov. 4 , but with data points continuing to expand nearing the midseason point, we have a pretty good idea of how that poll would look if the season ended today .

The 12-team bracket includes five auto-bids and seven at-large selections, but the major change this season is the move to a straight-seeding model designed to reward teams for quality wins and removes the previous rule that forced the top four seeds to all be conference champions.

Selection committee protocol has not changed with strength of schedule, head-to-head competition and comparative outcomes being the primary differentiators when grading. Bowl projections: Miami moves to top seed in College Football Playoff bra

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