CFP Anger Index: The Big 12 might get shut out? Clemson is back in the mix?

Frida Ghitis: What's the value of a win? It's something the playoff committee should be asking on a weekly basis, Ghitis says.

She says the committee should ask: What is worth a win after the games actually played? She says Big Ten thinks its teams are best because they've lost fewer games, while SEC thinks they're best because of tougher schedule.

Ghitis asks: What do you think is a win worth?.

College football's playoff committee is throwing ideas against the wall and reporting back what stuck.

Rankings often seem less about a genuine appreciation for what a team has done than a speculative assumption about what it might do in a hypothetical future or alternate timeline.

The Big 12's champion, however, is three -loss Kansas State .

The committee isn't ranking strength of schedule, and right now, everyone but Arizona State sits behind multiple Group of 5 teams.

Team A: 9-2 , 1 -1 vs. SP+ top-40, losses to teams with a combined record of 18-4 by a combined 8 points.

Team A has a clear edge over Team B , but only Team A is UNLV, which ranks No. 22.

Duke Blue Devils and Syracuse Orange (both 8-3 , unranked) Duke and Syracuse are among 10 schools from Power 4 conferences that aren't ranked.