The College Football Playoff landscape just shifted drastically after Saturday’s wild slate of games.
Tennessee lost the top spot after falling to the Georgia Bulldogs (the Vols shouldn’t have been No. 1 anyway, or so one could argue). Alabama fell to LSU, and Clemson lost to Notre Dame in a series of games that will alter the next set of rankings drastically.
The USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins both won and should move up, although they might not move up all that much after not playing good games.
The new top 25 will change a lot, and it will be interesting to see how the newest CFP rankings change in a couple of days.
There is more to say about the changes in the rankings, which will affect a number of teams below the Trojans. This could mean something important for USC in the postseason, as we’ll explain below: