The after-effect of the Hurricanes losing to Georgia Tech dropped them in the most recent College Football Playoff Rankings and some explanations needed to be said.

We are officially into the final month of the college football regular season, and plenty of teams still have everything to play for. Anywhere between 20 and 40 teams are still alive to reach the expanded 12-team playoff, and the College Football Playoff rankings tell the story of the sport each week.