Tennessee, OSU, UGA, Clemson CFP's first four

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Undefeated Tennessee earned the No. 1 spot successful the College Football Playoff's archetypal Top 25 ranking connected Tuesday, marking the archetypal clip successful the program's past it cracked the apical four, followed by No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Clemson.

The 13-member committee ranked undefeated Michigan No. 5, and one-loss Alabama was No. 6 up of undefeated No. 7 TCU. Alabama had been ranked successful the apical 3 of the archetypal rankings successful each of the past six years. Alabama has ne'er been little than No. 6 successful the committee's archetypal ranking, arsenic it earned the aforesaid spot successful 2014.

Tennessee, which is averaging 49 points per crippled and leads the FBS successful full offense, became the seventh antithetic programme to gain the apical spot astatine immoderate constituent successful the playoff era. The Vols entered Tuesday's archetypal ranking ranked No. 1 successful ESPN's Strength of Record metric with the champion triumph successful the country, against No. 6 Alabama.

Seven of the past 8 teams that were ranked No. 1 successful the committee's archetypal ranking person gone connected to scope the CFP. The lone objection was Mississippi State successful 2014, the archetypal play of the CFP.

At No. 8, one-loss Oregon was the Pac-12's highest-ranked team.

Tennessee and Georgia volition look each different connected Saturday successful a crippled that volition person a drastic interaction connected the committee's 2nd ranking, and Ohio State and Michigan volition yet look each different successful their regular-season rivalry game.