In less than two weeks, the College Football Playoff selection committee will reveal its first batch of rankings for the 2024 season. It's an unenviable task only made more difficult by a wave of conference realignment that has seen the Power Five consolidate into a Power Four.

Surprise candidates like SMU, Illinois, Vanderbilt and Deion Sanders’ Colorado remain very much alive in the CFP race.

So of the 10 undefeated teams headed into Week 9, the Big Ten has three, the Big 12, ACC and AAC each have two and the SEC is nowhere to be found as those teams have been beating each other up all season.