Why Texas A&M Should Be No. 1 in College Football Playoff Rankings

McFarland, a two-time Super Bowl champion out of LSU, highlighted A&M's resume and between the three teams, it seems that the Buckeyes are the only ones that he would not put atop the list.

“I think Texas A&M’s resume, to this point and the way they’ve looked, deserves to be No. 1,” McFarland said during the selection show. “When you look at Indiana and what they’ve done going on the road to beat Oregon, I would even put them No. 1. I don’t know if I would put Ohio State at No. 1 based on what they’ve done.”

The Eye Test

Galloway, a former Ohio State alumnus himself, criticized the use of the "eye test" that many claim is used when selecting the playoff teams each year, and claimed that A&M's analytics in 2025 trumps that of the top two teams.

“This tells me that they’re going a lot on eye test here,” Galloway said. “Because if we’re going on ranking and analytics, Texas A&M is best analytically over Indiana and Ohio State. So, they’re going a lot off of eye test. And when you start telling me we’re going off eye test, now all of a sudden, we have no idea where this thing is going. You say, 'who’s Ohio State’s best win?' A Texas team that didn’t look great early. This surprises me because it’s a lot of eye test and I don’t trust eye test as much as I do analytics.”

According to ESPN, Texas A&M's strength of record is the best in college football, and their strength of record is No. 15, while the Hoosiers and Buckeyes follow right after them in record strength and No. 39 and 33, respectively, in the schedule strength.

Of course, there is still another month of play remaining, plenty of time for these rankings to get shaken up in a hurry, but with the dominant and consistent play of the Aggies thus far in the season, who's to say they couldn't be at the top right now?

The noise will have to subside for now, however, as the Aggies shift their focus on the No. 19 Missouri Tigers, who they face Saturday afternoon in Columbia.