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College Football Rankings 2014: Final NCAA Overview of Week 15 Standings

Steven CookDec 6, 2014

Oregon enters the final Saturday of the 2014 season as the only Top Four team having taken care of business and seemingly wrapped up its spot in the College Football Playoff.

Alabama can inevitably wrap up their case for the playoff with a win, but the Crimson Tide's hopes of getting the SEC back in the national title game will ride on a SEC title game showdown against peaking Missouri. 

Everyone else in the hunt is at the mercy of the committee. The likes of TCU, Baylor and Ohio State enter the final weekend needing to make a statement in order to ensure their spot while some of them and others look for help to climb into the conversation.

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With that said, let's take a final look at all of the Top 25 rankings as the final weekend approaches.

Full CFP rankings can be found here.

After No. 2 Oregon throttled No. 7 Arizona in Friday's Pac-12 Championship Game, the stage is set for a Saturday slate that will tell us just how real these CFP contenders' chances are.

But although it's championship weekend, the first matchup on tap doesn't figure to be much of a championship-like bout, as third-ranked TCU hosts 2-9 Iowa State to close out its Big 12 slate.

Unsurprisingly, quarterback Trevone Boykin and the Horned Frogs come in as massive 34.5-point favorites, according to Odds Shark. But does that mean that an unimpressive victory could knock them out of the Top Four altogether?

The Baylor Bears certainly hope so, and they've got a compelling case.

Art Briles' crew has one blemish on its record, a road loss at West Virginia, but have an all-important head-to-head win over TCU earlier in the season. However, that hasn't made much of a difference to the committee, which has kept TCU ahead of its conference counterpart.

But with Baylor having the chance to knock off No. 9 Kansas State on Saturday, 247Sports' Steve Wiltfong noted the questions will come in droves if the Bears fail to leapfrog the Frogs with a win:

It's easy to find folks on both sides of the argument when it comes to TCU and Baylor, but one thing seems to be a consensus—Florida State may be undefeated, but it can ill-afford a loss in the ACC Championship Game against No. 11 Georgia Tech.

The Yellow Jackets' dangerous triple-option might give the Seminoles fits, and a defeat would certainly knock the undefeated squad from the CFP conversation. Doubt has crept up in the form of Florida State winning seven of its games by six or fewer points.

But as head coach Jimbo Fisher told ESPN.com's David Hale, there isn't much premise in leaving the 'Noles out should they stay unbeaten:

It's hard to imagine Florida State falling further should it beat an impressive Top 15 team. But Ohio State looks likely to miss out on the fun altogether—even if it tops Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game Saturday night. 

The Buckeyes will trot out Cardale Jones at quarterback after J.T. Barrett's season-ending injury against Michigan, but they still remain No. 6 in the CFP rankings. Without help in the form of at least two superior teams falling, Urban Meyer's squad will be on the outside looking in.

Even as the final day of the college football season gets underway, the Top Four is nowhere near set. If things get as chaotic on Saturday as we've seen through stretches of this season, a team not even mentioned here could make the leap.

In this wacky 2014 season, unpredictable results have practically been the norm. If that continues into Saturday, none of the teams atop the rankings are safe.

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