NEW YORK — Georgia is ranked sixth after the College Football Playoff selection committee's first rankings of the season.
The rankings were released Tuesday night.
Ohio State, LSU, Alabama and Penn State are the top four in the initial CFP rankings. Next up were defending national champion Clemson, Georgia and Oregon.
The 13-member committee will produce four more sets of rankings each Tuesday before the only ones that really count come out on selection Sunday, Dec. 8.
The top four in the selection committee's initial rankings have never all reached the semifinals in the playoff's five-year history. Eleven of the 20 teams that started in the top four of the CFP rankings have reached the playoff, but, oddly, never the team ranked third.
Utah was eighth and Oklahoma, the highest ranked team from the Big 12, was ninth. Florida gave the Southeastern Conference four of the top 10 teams.
