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.

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.

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Notre Dame, Virginia and Texas Tech are on the College Football Playoff mock bracket based on the latest AP Top 25.

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.

The No. 6 Oregon Ducks enjoyed a bye during week 10 of the regular season as another chaotic weekend of college football will shuffle the AP Top 25 Poll. No. 8

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.