The College Football Playoff Committee revealed the third rankings of the 2025 season last Tuesday. BYU came in at No. 12, and Utah was No. 13 in the ranking.
The committee is scheduled to announce its fourth set of rankings on Tuesday, and some major shakeups are expected to happen this time as the regular season is almost near its end.
Sports Analyst Calls for College Football Playoff Committee to Remove BYU and Utah From Consideration
BYU is 10-1 this season, with the Cougars only 29-7 loss coming against Texas Tech on Nov. 8. BYU improved to No. 11 in the CFP ranking after a 44-13 win over TCU on Nov. 15.
Meanwhile, Utah is 9-2, with the Utes’ 34-10 loss against Texas Tech on Sept. 20 and 24-21 loss against BYU on Oct. 18. The Utes climbed from No. 13 following their 55-28 win over Baylor on Nov. 15.
BYU is ranked at the No. 11 in the PFSN College Football Playoff Ranking and Utah sits at No. 12. Both programs remain in the CFP top 25, but neither is positioned inside the 12-team expanded playoff field.
During “The McShay Show” on Saturday, analyst Todd McShay joined those calling for both teams to be dropped in the next CFP Rankings.
“This is the week I’m charging the committee with, let’s look at the big picture,” McShay said (01:24:28). “ Let’s actually get real this week. And think for the most part they’ve done a good job, but I think they’re missing the boat on the Big 12. The Big 12 is just not. They’re just not. The ACC is a mess, and they’ve recognized that they, and they’ve gotten the best team up there ahead of some of the others.
“You know, Miami was 8-2. I applaud them for that. Well, let’s get BYU and Utah out of here. They don’t belong because Miami might be good enough, right? My point is BYU gets knocked out. Utah needs to go away.”
Miami landed one spot behind Utah in the CFP rankings, at No. 13. Even though many argued the Hurricanes should be ranked above Utah, CFP Selection Committee chair Hunter Yurachek has already explained their placement, saying Miami’s two losses came against unranked Louisville and unranked SMU.
Meanwhile, Utah has two quality losses to Texas Tech and BYU. But then again, the Utes have only one win over a team currently ranked in the committee’s Top 25, and it’s Arizona State. Their latest 51-47 win over Kansas State also can’t be labelled as a difference maker.
So, the committee may choose to reward Miami’s 34-17 win over Virginia Tech last weekend, which marked the Hurricanes’ third consecutive win by at least 17 points.
BYU is the only team in the country with 6 wins over teams with 7+ wins. This article and these comments are a joke.
Totally agree
Miami wins by 24-31 against byu or Utah. We all can pretend, but this is the case. Only team deserving, from that conference, is Texas tech. If you disagree you either hate Miami, or don’t really watch the games and just look at stats
BYU should not be eligible for ranking in the top 10 until after the regular season is over. It’s ridiculous how they are put in the top 10 with 1 or 0 loss, when they haven’t played a single respectable opponent. In over 30 seasons they have finished in the top 10 only once and that was 29 years ago. During that period they finished in the top 15 only 3 times. Yet every year they get overly generous early season rankings until they actually play a good team or they manage to lose to an inferior opponent. Big12 is a joke.
what are you even talking about? They beat more more eligible teams than any other team, they’ve beat a top 15 team. Their strength of schedule metric puts them in the middle of the pack of the top 10 playoff teams
Seriously, this is such a dumb take. BYU has as good of a resume in terms of teams beaten than most of the top 10
Overly generous preseason rankings? BYU didn’t even start ranked. Tell me you don’t know anything about college football without telling me you don’t know a darn thing about college football. Sit down, son.
What has Miami done since the early 2000s?
Pretty amusing you think Miami would dominate BYU. You lost to SMU. An SMU team that lost to TCU. BYU killed TCU. Maybe they lost to Miami but the lack of respect is amusing and shows a complete lack of objectivity.
BYU doesn’t sweat Miami. Shoot, even SMU doesn’t sweat Miami! Who has Miami played? They’ve been beat by 2 teams who are both outside the top 25.
FYI- The big 12 has 3 teams ranked above Miami and The Big 12 is 6-1 against the ACC.
These kinds of comments make me think it has to be coming from a 12 yr old kid.
Joke
Lets have YOU be dropped