{"id":3232,"date":"2014-10-28T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2014-10-28T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:52:00","slug":"mississippi-state-florida-state-top-in-college-football-playoff-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2014\/10\/28\/mississippi-state-florida-state-top-in-college-football-playoff-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State, Florida State tops in college football playoff rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2014\/10\/dakprescottmississippistate.jpg\" alt=\"dakprescottmississippistate\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2014\/10\/dakprescottmississippistate.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2014\/10\/dakprescottmississippistate-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe first wave of college football playoff rankings were released on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>To the surprise of no one Mississippi State and Florida State were ranked No. 1 and No. 2. Two other SEC schools in Auburn and Ole Miss rounded out the top four.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon and Alabama came in ranked No. 5 and No. 6 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The top four teams in the final rankings on Dec. 7 will play in the inaugural College Football Playoff, starting Jan. 1. With a flurry of SEC match-ups to come and a small pool of ranked opponents for others (namely FSU and Oregon) these rankings are sure to be changed by then.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the top 10 includes No. 7 TCU, No. 8 Michigan State, No. 9 Kansas State and No. 10 Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first wave of college football playoff rankings were released on Tuesday night. To the surprise of no one Mississippi State and Florida State were ranked No. 1 and No. 2. Two other SEC schools in Auburn and Ole Miss rounded out the top four. Oregon and Alabama came in ranked No. 5 and No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,131],"tags":[135,134],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news","category-ncaafb-topstory","tag-front","tag-ncaafb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}