4 December 2022
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Georgia (13-0, 148.35) tops the FINAL Merit Rankings of the 2022 season. BlindFold Sports projects Georgia, Michigan (13-0, 134.38), TCU (12-1, 100.19) and Ohio State (11-1, 93.80) should be the four teams chosen for the 2023 College Football Playoff.
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And, they were. The CFP committee selections have reflected my data 30 of 32 times through eight of the playoff's first nine renditions. (Data was not calculated for the 2020 season due to the wide variance of games played because of the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Kansas State (10-3, 75.20) added the most merit points (25.51) during Championship Week and jumped three spots to No. 8 in the final rankings after handing TCU its first loss of the season in overtime. Clemson (11-2, 89.27) added 19.20 merit points and narrowly missed the top four, landing at No. 5. The Tigers would have been the No. 4 team if not for the loss last week at home to South Carolina (8-4, 26.25). Of course, that is given the loss Friday night by USC (11-2, 78.85), which dropped 7.20 merit points and slid from No. 4 to No. 6.
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Georgia tallied the​ most merit points of any team since this analysis began in 2014. The Bulldogs and Michigan became the ninth and 10th teams to amass at least 130 merit points in a season. Here are the 10 teams that accumulated the most merit points since 2014 (* - won playoff):
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148.35 — Georgia, 2022 (13-0)
147.39 — Ohio State, 2019 (13-0)
146.29 — *Alabama, 2015 (12-1)
145.54 — Alabama, 2016 (13-0)
139.43 — *LSU, 2019 (13-0)
136.55 — *Clemson, 2018 (13-0)
135.17 — Alabama, 2018 (13-0)
134.38 — Michigan, 2022 (13-0)
132.97 — Clemson, 2015 (13-0)
132.43 — Florida State, 2014 (13-0)
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