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Where OU ranks in the latest College Football Playoff

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OU is No. 8 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings.

The Sooners are in a good spot heading into conference championship week. They boast one of the best resumes in college football this season, beating No.9 Alabama, Tennessee, No.19 Michigan, Missouri and LSU. And their only losses came against top 15 teams in No.6 Ole Miss and No.13 Texas.

It appears that OU is a lock to make the 12-team playoff. Now the question is, will it host a first-round game?

“I don’t even know what that means, you know?” coach Brent Venables said after beating LSU. “I’d just love an invitation. I don’t care if it’s on the road. And I say I don’t care, of course I would love to be here, but I spend no time looking at that and I’m going to fight for this or that. I don’t know. They’re not listening to me. There’s plenty of things to look at for them to make the decisions they make. I’m sure it’s not easy. Wherever they ask us to play, we’ll show up.”

There will likely be some change in the final rankings with Alabama and No.3 Georgia facing each other in the SEC Championship and No.4 Texas Tech and No. 11 BYU playing for a spot in the playoff in the Big 12 title game. The ACC Championship with Virginia and Duke could also cause some chaos.

But for the Sooners, they will be waiting with everyone else to see where they end up. And they will find out on Sunday at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN.

“We’ll see what is in front of us right now,” Venables said. “We’re going to take a couple of days off, get a couple lifts in. We’ll have a couple of young guys practices, 12-period practices, and get our bodies and our minds and our spirits where they need to be.  But man, I’m super thankful to be their coach. They just got the right stuff—all the stuff that you can’t put a price on, you can’t put a measuring stick on, these guys got it. So, that’ll open it up for questions.”

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