College Football Playoff Rankings: Ohio State gets its shot at Georgia, glory - FOX Sports

I can only imagine the relief on his face — and on the faces of Ohio State fans across the country — when the College Football Playoff selection committee saw fit to rank the Buckeyes No.

It doesn’t matter to those fans that their Buckeyes lost embarrassingly to Michigan at home for the first time since 2000 just two weeks ago.

Top four in final College Football Playoff rankings:.

If the Buckeyes can upset Georgia in what is essentially a home game for the Bulldogs, they could earn a shot at playing Michigan for the national championship.

McCarthy who looks more mature with every game he plays, the Wolverines looked poised to win their first national title of the century

Ohio State and Michigan are in the CFP at the same time for the first time, and the pageantry and regionality will tick up a bit with two teams north and south of the Mason-Dixon Line looking to prove whose brand of football is best

The final College Football Playoff rankings:

RJ Young is a national college football writer and analyst for FOX Sports and the host of the podcast "The Number One College Football Show." Follow him on Twitter at @RJ_Young and subscribe to "The RJ Young Show" on YouTube

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