Barstool Breakdown Coach Day's Heisman & Playoff Rankings Vol. 6

With now only two weekends left in college football, the races are tightening for both the playoffs & the Heisman Trophy. This week’s rankings for the playoffs will still feature the full top 25, but the Heisman rankings are being cut to 5, as barring a miracle it feels like the race is down to just a few possibilities. The major interest, though, has to be the playoff rankings, as there are still a ton of scenarios that could lead to chaos in the coming weeks. While we’ll get to that, let’s start with the Heisman.

For another week, we can’t knock Ohio State QB Julian Sayin from the top spot, he’s just doing everything right while others have mis stepped. The one major mover in my mind has to be Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love, as yet again he showed off his unique skill set on the national stage. Against the nation’s top run defense, he managed to go for almost 130 yards & one hell of a touchdown play.

Alabama’s Ty Simpson does take a huge hit after a very up & down performance in the loss, but he still deserves to be in the conversation. His season is too complete to ignore as a true contender, though this performance will hurt him overall.

Lastly, I feel we can’t ignore the season from LB Jacob Rodriguez of Texas Tech. He has been on an insane run. Last weekend the Red Raiders even tried to help his cause by getting him that wildcat TD! It would be so awesome to see a defensive player in NY.

Now all the Heisman talk was fun & all, but the playoffs are the main course here. The top 3 will remain the same with Ohio State, Indiana, & Texas A&M staying undefeated, with A&M’s frantic comeback keeping them unblemished.

Georgia, Ole Miss, & Texas Tech all move up as the one-loss teams that feel like locks at this point barring some type of horrific collapse. Georgia still has Georgia Tech the last week of the season, but that feels more important for Tech, as winning that would seal them into the playoffs more than it would knock UGA out.

A one-loss team that may have some trouble ahead is Oregon, who finishes with USC, a two-loss team hoping to crash the playoff party, and then at Washington, which is considered one of the tougher places to play in the whole nation. In fact, the two-loss team logjam could be really rough for the committee.

So let’s talk about a scenario here: a two-loss pile-up of Oregon, Alabama, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, USC, BYU, Utah, Miami, & Vanderbilt. If you have 5 champions with UGA, Ole Miss, and Indiana or Ohio State… that leaves 4 spots for those 9 teams. YIKES. You have Alabama with major wins but a horrible loss vs FSU. Miami with a horrible conference but a win vs ND. ND with a win over USC, but USC has a win over Oregon. And of course Oklahoma with a win over Bama but a loss to Texas. That’s just the freakin surface!

Of course the games still have to be played, as I’m over here running the hypotheticals like a Twitter-crazed SEC fan. But why not? They’re so damn fun to play out, and the two-loss logjam is very real. Maybe not 9 deep like that, but possibly 5, 6, or 7. How will the committee not only pick these teams but also seed them? Oh, the noise for a 16-team playoff could get very loud very soon. Either way, stay glued to the games the next two weekends as this thing unfolds.