Greg McElroy addressed LSU’s No. 5 ranking following the latest College Football Playoff and called it significant.

McElroy wondered on his “Always College Football” podcast if both LSU and USC win out, do the Trojans jump the Tigers?

“Does LSU control their own destiny, does Georgia potentially become in a little bit of a tricky situation at 12-1 if they lose to LSU,” he said. “I don’t think so, right. I do think LSU is in control of their own destiny, though. It would be very difficult based on where the committee has these teams now.”

McElroy believes there’s a chance USC wins out and is still left out of the Playoff, which he described as crazy because of how the committee values the Pac-12.

“This is where I’m having a very difficult time with this whole deal,” McElroy said. “The Pac-12 has half of their conference members ranked in the top 21 and yet clearly the committee’s not really sold on USC. That’s mind-boggling to me.”

USC has quality wins over UCLA and Oregon State, and an opportunity this week against No. 15 Notre Dame.

“That doesn’t sit well with me,” he said. “You can’t tell me how great a conference is and then not have the winner of that conference, and by the way the 1 loss USC experienced was by 1 on the road at Utah, who also is in the top 14. I just think that the committee might’ve gotten that part of it wrong.”