Former Ohio State star warns Buckeye Nation of what could be coming in the first College Football Playoff rankings

The Ohio State Buckeyes have held the No. 1 spot in the nation since Week 2, thanks to their season-opening win over the then top-ranked Texas Longhorns. Since that victory, the Buckeyes have climbed to a 7-0 record and have yet to be seriously threatened in a game this season.

Of course, the current rankings don’t mean much in the long run. The ones that matter are the College Football Playoff rankings, which will be released during the first week of November. The committee’s criteria differ from the AP and Coaches Polls, meaning it’s not guaranteed that Ohio State will remain No. 1 when the CFP rankings debut on Nov. 4.

Joey Galloway believes there’s a chance the Buckeyes won’t be the top-ranked team in the CFP to start

“Nov. 4th on that Tuesday, we’ll get our first look into how the Committee is viewing the schedule, the records, and wins of all these teams,” Galloway said on Kirk Herbstreit‘s Nonstop podcast recently. “We have Ohio State No. 1. I wouldn’t have a complaint in the world if, on Nov. 4, the Committee doesn’t have them No. 1. Their resume is not great, [and] Penn State will be unranked. Texas is hanging on by a thread. If Texas loses this week to Vanderbilt, they have a chance of not being ranked at all.

“So you look at their schedule and say, ‘Well, there’s no ranked wins.’ They look really good, but their resume and their schedule now all of a sudden have the potential to not look very good. They don’t play Indiana or Oregon. If the Committee were to move them down, I wouldn’t have an argument. I would understand it.”