The SEC rules the top of this season's first College Football Playoff rankings, but not perhaps in the way most would think.
Though Alabama is ranked ahead of Georgia in the AP poll, the CFP committee sees the unbeaten Bulldogs as the No. 1 team ahead of the equally unbeaten Crimson Tide, who sit at No. 2.
With both teams currently on a collision course for the SEC title game, the Dec. 2 game in Atlanta could serve as a playoff game for the CFP.
Following the SEC titans are six teams sitting at 7-1, led by Notre Dame at No.