Alabama and Auburn both control their own destiny into the Final Four of the College Football Playoff. All they have to do is win the rest of their games. Easy enough, right?
Alabama moved up one spot in the poll from sixth to fifth as it heads to No. 16 LSU this weekend. But even with the bye week rankings boost, Nick Saban still doesn’t care.
“This is the game we play this week, and that’s where our total focus is — on this one game, because that’s the most important thing to us right now this week,” Saban said Monday. “Be where your feet are. This is where we are right now, this is the most important thing to us.
“Rankings really mean nothing right now at all to our team, but if we’re going to have a chance to end up where we have any opportunities at the end of the season, whether it’s SEC or Playoff or anything like that, then we have to care of business today.”
But just in case you are not Saban and would like to know where the teams sit in this second week of the committee ranking, here it is.
1. Mississippi State
2. Florida State
3. Auburn
4. Oregon
5. Alabama
6. TCU
7. Kansas State
8. Michigan State
9. Arizona State
10. Notre Dame
11. Mississippi
12. Baylor
13. Nebraska
14. Ohio State
15. Oklahoma
16. LSU
17. Utah
18. UCLA
19. Arizona
20. Georgia
21. Clemson
22. Duke
23. West Virginia
24. Georgia Tech
25. Wisconsin
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