The first College Football Playoff rankings revealed this season makes no sense

Between the rise of Indiana and the fall of Penn State, two teams that square off this weekend, this college football season has been anything but normal.

There is quite a bit to follow in college football this season — and that’s before you even get to what’s happening between the lines.

Players getting paid directly by schools, coaches getting paid even more to stop working, dueling legislation in Congress — those are only part of the off-field chaos that pales in comparison to the actual games being played.

Indiana is a new blue blood? Sure! Neither Alabama nor Georgia are the top-ranked team in the SEC? That’s right! And we haven’t even gotten to the guaranteed bids that are wreaking havoc on the bottom of the bracket.

With all that in mind, let’s run through just how strange this college football season has been so far.

First and foremost, this would be the 12-team playoff field if the postseason were to begin tomorrow, starting with the 12th seed: Memphis, Virginia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Texas Tech, BYU, Ole Miss, Georgia, Alabama, Texas A&M, Indiana and Ohio State.