​CFP rankings winners and losers for Week 10: ‘SEC bias’ is back; Notre Dame, Ohio State better not lose originally appeared on The Sporting News.
Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.The first set of College Football Playoff rankings were unveiled on “College Football Top 25″ on Tuesday – and a Generation Z catch-phrase applies. Rage bait. That’s exactly what came from a first set of rankings that are nowhere close to the AP Top 25, which was released Sunday. No. 11 Notre Dame is seven spots higher in the AP Top 25. No. 5 Alabama is four spots higher than their AP Top 25 ranking, and head-to-head result No. 4 Indiana and No. 12 Ohio State was huge.CFP Top 25 teams by conference             CONF.TEAMSSEC10Big Ten6Big 125ACC2Ind1Mountain West1″This has been such a crazy football season filled with unbelievable parity through the first eight weeks,” CFP committee chairman Hunter Yurachek said on the ESPN telecast. “There are a number of football games to be played. Just look at the matchups coming this weekend. … We’re looking forward to the task at hand, and it will be a difficult task each week.” Yes, there promises to be massive changes after Week 10 – which features seven matchups between teams ranked in the CFP Top 25. That was made possible with No. 23 Oregon, which is not ranked in the AP Top 25. But this set had a lot of rage bait. Who were the winners and losers in the first set of rankings? A closer look.MORE: Here’s what a 24-team field would look like with these rankingsCFP Rankings winners & losers Winners SECThe SEC had 10 teams in the rankings, including five teams in the top 10, which would be inside the 12-team field. It’s more than that, however. Georgia had the same spot in the AP Top 25. Every other SEC team is ranked higher in the CFP rankings than the AP Top 25. A closer look at the differences:                                      SCHOOLCFPAPDIFGeorgia22-Alabama59+4Kentucky68+2Texas710+3Ole Miss1012+2Tennessee1316+3LSU1415+1Missouri1819+1South Carolina2123+2Florida2425+1This does nothing to shed the narrative of “SEC bias” from the CFP committee. How fair is it? The SEC has been subjectively the best conference in the FBS to this point, and per usual they have the highest one-loss team (Georgia), highest two-loss team (Alabama) and highest three-loss team (South Carolina) in the rankings. That bodes well for SEC teams trying to take the last few at-large spots as November progresses. Indiana No. 4 Indiana is the highest-ranked Big Ten team, which was a surprise considering the Hoosiers have a head-to-head loss to Ohio State and No. 8 UCLA is the only unbeaten team left in the Big Ten. Why is this a surprise? Indiana has four one-score victories in Big Ten play, including a 23-16 overtime escape against Minnesota in Week 9, and no wins against this current Top 25. Should the Hoosiers be a top-five team right now? No, but Indiana coach Curt Ci