In looking at these Way Early rankings, I'm afraid TCU is looking at a ceiling of about 20th or so, no matter how good they look against their schedule next year, or how many games they win. I'm afraid that many of these college football voters (AP, Coaches, CFP), are going to be very reluctant to vote TCU anywhere near making the playoffs (even the expanded one) for the next couple of years. You'll still need to be voted into an expanded playoff, even the conference champs, and a lot of these voters won't want to risk the vitriolic blowback on social media from the Paul Finebaum's out there that feel TCU got exposed as faux "big boys", and had no business being in the playoffs. Be prepared to deal with this "Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me" kind of thinking amongst the voters.