And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football’s Week 10, when I learned to never again take Multiview, Key Plays and low latency for granted.

1. The season’s first College Football Playoff rankings come out Tuesday. The way this season is going, the committee ought to rank Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M 1-2-3, then put down “We have no idea” for spots 4-12.

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Also: It might as well use a placeholder the rest of the way that just says: “ACC champ.”

2. The ACC has been waiting more than 20 years for its three biggest national brands, Florida State, Clemson and Miami, to all be nationally relevant at the same time. There was a brief moment in September when all three were ranked in the top 15, but the Noles and Tigers quickly fell apart. And there was a brief moment in early October when the Hurricanes were ranked No. 2 in the country.

But after a Saturday that saw both No. 8 Georgia Tech and No. 10 Miami go down in the ACC race, out-of-nowhere Virginia is now alone in first place at 5-0, followed by five teams with one loss. That’s six teams with a realistic chance to reach the conference title game — and 2-2 Miami isn’t one of them.

3. As impressive as the Canes looked early in the season, when they beat Notre Dame, hammered Group of 5 darling USF and routed Florida, I had trouble envisioning Mario Cristobal landing the plane. And now I remember why. Miami led 20-17 with one minute left at SMU when an unnecessary roughness flag — one of 12 penalties on the day — allowed the Mustangs to pick up a fourth-and-9 en route to a game-tying field goal. And then in overtime, Canes star Carson Beck threw his sixth pick in three games. SMU drove for a walk-off touchdown to win 26-20.

Cristobal, 63-31 over eight seasons at Oregon and Miami, has become the sport’s resident “does less with more” guy. He has the most talented roster in the ACC, yet he has gone 3-4 in his last seven conference games, with all four losses to teams that were unranked at the time. And now the Canes are all but eliminated from the conference title picture.

This team has a better shot than last year’s to get an at-large berth at 10-2 thanks to those two good nonconference wins, but Cristobal and Beck don’t elicit much confid