{"id":9533,"date":"2025-11-12T07:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:48:57","slug":"college-football-playoff-rankings-wheres-texas-am-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=9533","title":{"rendered":"College Football Playoff rankings: Where&#8217;s Texas A&amp;M football?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">In the\u00a0most recent projection, the Aggies were ranked No. 3 by the\u00a0selection committee Tuesday evening. A&amp;M trailed only No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana, making the Aggies, once again, the highest-ranked team in the Southeastern Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">In this week&#8217;s fictional bracket, A&amp;M would get a first-round bye and then face either Texas Tech or Miami in the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">A&amp;M\u00a0 (9-0, 6-0) returns\u00a0to Kyle Field to take on South Carolina (3-6, 1-6) Saturday after a three-game road stretch. <\/span>In Week 11, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/article\/texas-am-missouri-score-grades-aggies-21149277.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Aggies handled Missouri 38-17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\"><span style=\"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px\">The Aggies have three games remaining on their schedule, starting with the Gamecocks. A&amp;M then\u00a0hosts Samford in Week 13. The Aggies finish the regular season in Austin, facing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas Longhorns<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">In the 12-team format, the five highest-ranked conference champions earn automatic bids. Then the next seven highest-ranked teams are included. A Group of Five program will be at least one of those selections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">As of 2025, those ranked Nos. 1-4 will get a first-round bye. In 2024, the first year of the 12-team\u00a0CFP, the four highest-ranked conference champions received a first-round bye, regardless of their overall ranking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">Seeds No. 5-12 will compete in the first round. The higher-seeded teams will host those games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p><em>Reach Texas A&amp;M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/article\/texas-am-football-cfp-rankings-sec-21161854.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0most recent projection, the Aggies were ranked No. 3 by the\u00a0selection committee Tuesday evening. A&amp;M trailed only No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana, making the Aggies, once again, the highest-ranked team in the Southeastern Conference. In this week&#8217;s fictional bracket, A&amp;M would get a first-round bye and then face either Texas Tech &#8230; <a title=\"College Football Playoff rankings: Where&#8217;s Texas A&amp;M football?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=9533\" aria-label=\"Read more about College Football Playoff rankings: Where&#8217;s Texas A&amp;M football?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/College-Football-Playoff-rankings-Wheres-Texas-AM-football.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9535,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions\/9535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}