According to a CFP release confirming this year’s rankings schedule, the committee will unveil its penultimate top 25 on Tuesday, Dec. 1 — four days before conference championship weekend and a full six days before the final rankings and bracket reveal on Sunday, Dec. 6. ESPN/CFP still doing a rankings release ahead of conference championship games. Because not everyone plays between that + final rankings. Despite neither team competing in a conference title game, Miami mysteriously jumped Notre Dame to secure what was, in practice, the final at-large spot in the CFP. That show has been a source of consternation among football fans, and even ESPN’s own college football analysts, for years.