{"id":2705,"date":"2015-11-24T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2015-11-24T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T14:52:28","slug":"jessup-pope-college-football-rankings-november-24-2015-by-don-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2015\/11\/24\/jessup-pope-college-football-rankings-november-24-2015-by-don-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessup Pope College Football Rankings November 24, 2015 by Don  Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Now that week 12 is in the record books, the College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee will meet today and update their rankings which are a big deal because, when the smoke clears at the end of the college season, the top 4 ranked teams will play in the playoff bowl games to determine the overall number one team.\u00a0 Teams 5,6,&#8230; are left to play in such memorable bowl games as the Tidy Bowl.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, I am sitting here by the phone, waiting for the CFP committee to call for advice. You see, over the last 3 weekends, the Jessup Pope (JP) ranking system has predicted 75% correctly for games involving top 25 teams, while predictions based on the weekly CFP rankings only got 66% correct.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just in case you are wondering, our top 4 are now Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Alabama, and Michigan State.\u00a0 Clemson and Arkansas are the next 2 teams &#8220;on the bubble&#8221; of making it in.\u00a0 Our JP rankings continue to be less impressed with our regional favorites TCU, Baylor, and Okie State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Surely the phone will ring any minute now&#8230;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that week 12 is in the record books, the College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee will meet today and update their rankings which are a big deal because, when the smoke clears at the end of the college season, the top 4 ranked teams will play in the playoff bowl games to determine the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,2838,6633,2750,467,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-coba-alumni","category-coba-faculty","category-current-students","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}