The CFP committee sure knows how to pick a date to release their rankings.

Missouri football, after a 6-2 start to its season, received the No. 24 ranking in the first set of rankings released by the College Football Playoff committee. The committee revealed the current top-25 teams in their estimation during a live rankings reveal Tuesday on ESPN.

Mizzou has taken blowout losses in both of its biggest games of the season, bookending the month of October with a 41-10 loss on the road at Texas A&M and a 34-0 shutout defeat at Alabama.

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That means Missouri’s marquee win on its record is over Vanderbilt, which MU beat in double-overtime in September. MU’s other wins have come over a struggling Auburn team, Boston College, Buffalo, UMass and Murray State.

Mizzou remained ranked in the US LBM Coaches Poll after undergoing its second and final idle week of the season last Saturday, but the Tigers dropped out of the AP poll and are now the first team out of the top 25.

The CFP committee agreed with the coaches on Missouri's standing over the media voters.

Oregon took the No. 1 spot in the CFP rankings, as was the case in both the coaches and AP poll this week. Ohio State was No. 2, Georgia was No. 3 and Miami was No. 4. Boise State was the top-ranked Group of Five team.

Since Power-conference champions will earn an auto bid and first-round bye, that means Ohio State would play in the first round and No. 9-seeded BYU, as the current projected top Big 12 team, would earn a bye to the quarterfinals.

There is, of course, a lot of season left to play and conference champions to be decided.

In total, eight SEC teams made the CFP’s top 25, which serves as a good barometer for the teams the committee is considering for a berth to the recently expanded, 12-team playoffs beginning in December. In addition to Georgia and Missouri, Texas was No. 5; Tennessee was No. 7; Alabama was No. 11; Texas A&M was No. 14; LSU was No. 15; and Ole Miss was No. 16.

Selection Sunday for the CFP is Sunday, Dec. 8. If the Tigers win out, beginning with a game Saturday at home against Oklahoma, that still likely would not be enough to crack the top 12 without a long list of other results falling in their favor.

But, for the time being, Missouri is at least on the periphery in the committee’s considerations.

This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Here is where Missouri football landed in season's first CFP rankings