Alabama at #5 is the highest any two-loss team has ever been placed in the opening CFP rankings

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#1 · Original post · Thu, 05 November 2026 03:17
Alabama at #5 is the highest any two-loss team has ever been placed in the opening CFP rankings

Ran some more numbers, and the CFP broke yet another record yesterday. Before this year, no two-loss team had ever opened higher than #8 (Wisconsin, 2016). This year, two SEC teams passed it: Alabama at #5 and Texas at #7. Alabama’s losses [AP rank at game time / current AP rank / current CFP rank] 17-20 to Georgia [#2 / #2 / #2] 10-26 at Tennessee [#14 / #16 / #13] Texas’s losses [AP rank at game time / current A...

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