SEC's Georgia, Alabama lead CFB Playoff Rankings for 2nd straight week

UNB! Sports Staff Report

The Week 11 College Football Playoff Rankings were released Tuesday.

The rankings are below:

1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame
4. Clemson
5. Oklahoma
6. TCU
7. Miami
8. Wisconsin
9. Washington
10. Auburn
11. USC
12. Michigan State
13. Ohio State
14. Penn State
15. Oklahoma State
16. Mississippi State
17. Virginia Tech
18. UCF
19. Washington State
20. Iowa
21. Iowa State
22. Memphis
23. NC State
24. LSU
25. Northwestern

NOTES: Notre Dame has a +75 scoring differential against current CFB Playoff Top-25 teams, best in the FBS. Their 3 wins wins vs teams in the current committee Top 25 are tied for the most with Clemson. ... No. 4 Clemson is 1 of 3 teams ranked in all 21 committee releases since 2014 (Alabama & Ohio State are others). ... Notre Dame is ranked No. 3 in the CFB Playoff for the 2nd straight week. They are the highest-ranked 1-loss team in the committee's Top 25. ... The Top 4 in the CFB Playoff rankings remain the same as last week. No team ranked lower than No. 14 in the 2nd release has gone on to reach playoff (2014 – No. 14 Ohio State). ... The Big Ten has 6 teams ranked in the committee's Top 25 this week, most of any conference and its most in a single week in the CFB Playoff era. ... Michigan State's 12-spot jump from No. 24 to No. 12 is the biggest 1-week jump in the 4-year history of the CFB Playoff rankings. The Previous high was an 8-spot jump, done 3 times.