The first College Football Playoff rankings came out five weeks ago. They looked a lot like tonight's rankings .

We've had precious little movement at the top, with a few teams jockeying up or down a slot, but effectively no seismic shifts in the landscape. BYU and Texas are the only two teams that were projected in the field in the committee's first ranking that aren't now -- and they're just barely on the outside with reasonable arguments for inclusion.

Teams ranked in the top 18 by the committee this year are a combined 55-9, with six of those losses coming to other teams ranked in the top 18. All three outliers are courtesy of -- you guessed it -- the ACC (Louisville to Cal, Virginia to Wake and Georgia Tech to Pitt).

That's a massive anomaly. Last year, top-18 teams at this point

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