CFP poll looks a lot like the AP poll, with the same controversial rankings and overvalued, undervalued teams.

The first 12-team College Football Playoff rankings are identical to the current Associated Press poll — with the exception of Ohio State and Georgia swapping No. 2 and No. 3 positions. Surely, that’s merely a coincidence because we’ve been told over and over how polls are meaningless in college football until the CFP rankings arrive.

Kalen DeBoer claimed he didn’t know where Alabama football was ranked in the initial College Football Playoff top 25 until informed on the SEC coaches teleconference Wednesday morning. Believe him or not, but UA was sitting at No. 11 when the rankings were revealed Tuesday evening.

Kalen DeBoer knows what Alabama football must do in the final four games of the 2024 regular season: Just keep winning.

The first college football playoff rankings of the season are out, and LSU is ranked 15th. With 12 teams set to make the playoffs this year, the Fighting Tigers have more work to do in order to be in the new 12-team College Football Playoff.

Unbeaten Oregon is the No. 1 team in the first rankings released by the College Football Playoff selection committee on ESPN Tuesday night, followed by Ohio State, Georgia, Miami and Texas.

A 13-member selection panel released its first top-25 list, and saw what most of the country has seen this year -- that the Ducks are the best in the country.