(CNN) — First the disclaimer: it’s early November. There is no need to overreact.

Well, let’s be serious. The entire purpose of releasing the College Football Playoff rankings 33 days before it counts is to encourage fomenting, handwringing and angst.

What else are we supposed to do? Let it play out, for heaven’s sake? How rational. How dull.

There would be neither armchairs from which to quarterback nor watercoolers from which to debate if we simply opted to wait and see. Besides, this is college football, where governors insert themselves into the decision making. Melodrama reigns.

Were the season to end tomorrow, the rankings released on Tuesday night combined with the rules - the five highest-ranked conference champions make the 12-team field via a straight seed model - would

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