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COLLEGE STATION — After a week of rest in its final regular season bye week of the year Texas A&M football stands pat in the polls entering Week 11. With no game to further boost their resume, the Aggies remain No. 3 in the US LBM coaches poll and the AP Top 25 poll.

The College Football Playoff committee releases its initial rankings Tuesday, and there will be plenty of debate among fans and pundits in the following days.

It seems like Miami's College Football Playoff hopes are done, but the Hurricanes still have a win over a top-10 team (Notre Dame) and dominated a pretty good South Florida team. The Notre Dame win kept Miami ahead of Texas and USC. Neither team holds a win that impressive, and they have flaws in their own right.

Instead of basing a decision on both the eye test and all of the metrics that backed up what we were seeing weekly from Garrett Nussmeier and Co., my fellow voters kept giving the Tigers credit they didn’t deserve. They waited for that third loss, then they could defend the decision not to rank LSU. Some of us reached that point weeks earlier.

Notre Dame, winner of six straight, was last in the AP top 10 in Week 3 before a home loss to Texas A&M dropped them to 0-2.