The College Football Playoff selection committee released its second rankings of the 2026 season on Tuesday, November 10, and the top of the board turned over completely: Georgia, 8-1, is now No. 1, and Miami, which led the first rankings a week earlier, dropped six places to No. 7 after losing to Notre Dame.
Utah, at 9-0, is second. Alabama is third at 7-2, and UCLA, also unbeaten at 9-0, is fourth.
The top 12
| Rank | Team | Record | Previous |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | 8-1 | 2 |
| 2 | Utah | 9-0 | 3 |
| 3 | Alabama | 7-2 | 5 |
| 4 | UCLA | 9-0 | 8 |
| 5 | Notre Dame | 8-1 | 11 |
| 6 | Texas | 7-2 | 7 |
| 7 | Miami (FL) | 8-1 | 1 |
| 8 | Tennessee | 7-2 | 13 |
| 9 | Indiana | 8-1 | 4 |
| 10 | BYU | 7-2 | 9 |
| 11 | Kentucky | 7-2 | 6 |
| 12 | Texas Tech | 8-1 | 15 |
The rest of the 25, in order: Wake Forest (8-1), Houston (7-2), Iowa (7-2), Oregon (6-3), South Carolina (6-3), Southern Cal (7-2), Ole Miss (6-3), Ohio State (6-3), LSU (6-3), Missouri (6-3), Arizona (7-2), Boise State (8-1) and Oklahoma State (6-3).
Who moved
Oregon made the biggest climb, up seven places to No. 16. Notre Dame rose six to fifth on the strength of the win at Miami, Tennessee gained five to eighth, Iowa four to 15th and Texas Tech three to 12th.
The falls were steeper. Ole Miss, ranked 10th a week ago, is now 19th. Ohio State went from 12th to 20th, Indiana from fourth to ninth, and Kentucky from sixth to 11th. Oklahoma State entered the rankings at No. 25, the only new name on the list.
What the ordering says
Only two teams in the top 25 are still unbeaten, and the committee ranked neither of them first. Georgia, with a loss, sits above 9-0 Utah; Alabama, with two losses, sits above 9-0 UCLA.
That is the committee working as designed rather than as a tally of records — strength of schedule and quality of opponents beaten are explicitly part of its brief, and in practice a one-loss schedule through the Southeastern Conference has outweighed an unbeaten run elsewhere. It also means Utah and UCLA carry an asymmetric risk into the final weeks: a loss likely costs them more than a second loss would cost the teams ranked ahead of them.
This was the second of six rankings the committee will publish before the field is set, so the order is a snapshot rather than a standing. The first rankings lasted exactly one week at the top.
Reporting from the NCAA and the College Football Playoff selection committee.
