The College Football Playoff committee will release its first rankings of the season Tuesday night and which teams land in the top four is not all that important.
Last year, three of teams ranked in the first top four did not make the playoff.
What we might find are clues as to how the committee will value certain accomplishments later in the season and what teams still need to work on those resumes.
Here are five teams to watch when the rankings are revealed.
ALABAMA
The committee showed last season that it would not simply rank teams by record — which is a good thing.