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The Beat Sheet is an independent fan project that shows how the College Football Playoff selection committee ranks teams, using every committee ranking since 2014. Strip the helmets, read the résumés.

What this site is not

• Not official. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the College Football Playoff, the NCAA, any conference or any school. "College Football Playoff" and "CFP" are trademarks of their owner and are used here only to describe what the site analyzes. Team names and colors identify teams; no logos or other marks are used.
• Not a prediction service or betting advice. Forecasts and formulas describe how the committee has ranked teams in the past. They can be wrong, and nothing here should be used for wagering.
• Not guaranteed. The data comes from public sources and is checked automatically, but mistakes happen. The site is provided as is, without warranty of any kind.

Privacy

There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking cookies.

• Visit counts. The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without identifying you. We see totals, such as how many people opened a page and from which country, never who you are.
• Settings stay in your browser. Your color theme, favorite team, predictions, Case Files and Blind Résumé votes are saved in your own browser (local storage). They are never sent to us. Clearing your browser's site data removes them.
• Share links carry what you put in them. A share link or Case File link holds its settings and any text you typed, such as a title or a signature, so anyone you send it to can read them.
• Suggestions. If you use Suggest a feature, what you type (and an email or handle, only if you add one) goes to a private spreadsheet that only we can read. We use it to reply and to decide what to build, and we never sell or share it.
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Contact

Email [email protected], or use Suggest a feature.

Last updated November 14, 2026.