The College Football Playoff Rankings committee has released their rankings for the fourth time in 2014 and for the first time, we have a new No. 1 team in the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Alabama jumped from No. 5 to No. 1 after beating now No. 4 Mississippi State. The Oregon Ducks and Florida State Seminoles remain at No. 2 and No. 3 respectively.
The TCU Horned Frogs drop from No. 4 to No. 5 and now are on the outside looking in at a big payday.
As you might have guessed, there are no teams from the American Athletic Conference ranked in the poll.
| College Football Playoff Rankings (Nov. 18) |
|||
| RK | TEAM | REC | PREV |
| 1 | Alabama | 9-1 | 5 |
| 2 | Oregon | 9-1 | 2 |
| 3 | Florida State | 10-0 | 3 |
| 4 | Mississippi State | 9-1 | 1 |
| 5 | TCU | 9-1 | 4 |
| 6 | Ohio State | 9-1 | 8 |
| 7 | Baylor | 8-1 | 7 |
| 8 | Ole Miss | 8-2 | 10 |
| 9 | UCLA | 8-2 | 11 |
| 10 | Georgia | 8-2 | 15 |
| 11 | Michigan State | 8-2 | 12 |
| 12 | Kansas State | 7-2 | 13 |
| 13 | Arizona State | 8-2 | 6 |
| 14 | Auburn | 7-3 | 9 |
| 15 | Arizona | 8-2 | 14 |
| 16 | Wisconsin | 8-2 | 20 |
| 17 | Utah | 7-3 | 23 |
| 18 | Georgia Tech | 9-2 | 22 |
| 19 | USC | 7-3 | NR |
| 20 | Missouri | 8-2 | NR |
| 21 | Oklahoma | 7-3 | NR |
| 22 | Clemson | 7-3 | 19 |
| 23 | Nebraska | 8-2 | 16 |
| 24 | Louisville | 7-3 | NR |
| 25 | Minnesota | 7-3 | 25 |
| Dropped from rankings: | |||
| LSU 17, Notre Dame 18, Duke 21, Texas A&M 24 | |||