USA TODAY Sports
After all the intrigue and controversy over which team deserved to be No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports college football NCAA Re-Rank, it took one night to clear up a muddy picture. These things always seem to work out.
Alabama is the clear-cut, no question asked, with a bullet top seed in the 1-130 ranking of the Football Bowl Subdivision. There is no else even close. Clemson’s loss at Syracuse last Friday sealed the deal. It’s Alabama and then everyone else.
But the Tigers didn’t fall far.