Alabama holds at 2 in the new College Football Playoff Committee Rankings, but committee chair Jeff Long says that the committee did consider Alabama at the #1 spot.
The Tide continued to dominate this week with a strong win over previous #17 Mississippi State. The win was so impressive in fact that the College Football Playoff Committee says that they considered ranking Alabama at #1 ahead of the Clemson Tigers.
Jeff Long, CFB committee chair, says there was discussion of whether Clemson or Alabama should be #1. Votes said Clemson.
— Ed Feng (@thepowerrank) November 18, 2015
Personally I don’t want Alabama at #1; I think the amount of fuss and controversy that it would cause could be a distraction for the Tide.