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Alabama Football: After five weeks of college football, teams are already being sorted into contenders and pretenders.
Two weeks into the Alabama football season and five weeks into the FBS season, championship tracks are apparent. So are the teams already having run off championship tracks. Let’s consider the ‘Contenders’, ‘Pretenders’ and the ‘Too Soon to Call’ groups.
Early analysis is problematic when gauging Big Ten and Pac 12 teams who are yet to play. The top teams in those two conferences can only be evaluated from the most recent AP and Coaches Poll rankings.