Keep winning, keep climbing.
On Tuesday night, the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee released the 4th installment of its rankings for the 2024 season. After setting the foundation for the seedings and revealing some of the underlying logic last week with the first release, this week’s rankings continued along that path as we move through the month of November.
Coming off win against Wake Forest to move to 10-1, Miami was the beneficiary of their own success, and losses by several SEC teams. Those losses helped Miami move up a spot in the rankings and hold steady in the seedings projection at this point of the season.
Miami ranked 6th by CFP, seeded 3rd. https://t.co/almJ10ZB6i
— StateOfTheU.com (@TheStateOfTheU) November 27, 2024
November 2️⃣6️⃣ College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings#CFBPlayoff
6️⃣. Miami // @CanesFootball pic.twitter.com/JEObFs5sgP
— College Football Playoff (@CFBPlayoff) November 27, 2024
Miami continues to be the highest ranked ACC team at this point of the year. Following CFP logic, that means Miami’s projected as the eventual ACC Champions, and thusly retain their top-4 seed and a bye, if the current rankings held true to the end of the year. Here is the full bracket and seeding, for your viewing pleasure:
Regardless of present ranking, Miami is still in control of their own path to both the ACC Championship Game and College Football Playoff. Logically, it’s a simple path: win the rest of your games.
As it currently stands, Miami is in line for a first round bye. As the #3 seed, they would be in line to face the winner of 6 vs 11 game, currently ranked/seeded to be Penn State vs Indiana. But again, there’s a long way to go before any of this is finalized.
A regular season concluding win against Syracuse would put Miami in the ACC Championship game against SMU, who is 7-0 in conference and has already secured their spot in Charlotte. A win in the ACCCG would Put Miami in the top 4 as ACC Conference Champions and earn the Canes a bye to the quarterfinals.
Furthermore, SMU moving up to 9th in this week’s rankings opens the door for the first time this season that the ACCCG loser COULD possibly make the CFP. But, let’s let SMU worry about that, please. I’d rather win and get a bye to the quarterfinals. AND, Clemson is knocking on the door for the final at large CFP bid, as well. Scenes!!!!
Miami concludes the regular season at Syracuse on Saturday at 3:30pm on ESPN.
Go Canes