{"id":300817,"date":"2025-11-19T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300817\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:30:07","slug":"hunter-yurachek-spells-out-why-oklahoma-leapt-over-alabama-in-college-football-playoff-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300817\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Yurachek spells out why Oklahoma leapt over Alabama in College Football Playoff rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, head-to-head is a popular topic in the latest College Football Playoff<\/a> rankings. Specifically in the back-end of the top-10, where many figured Alabama<\/a> and Oklahoma<\/a> wound up. With the Sooners winning in Tuscaloosa on Saturday afternoon, they jumped ahead of their SEC foes.<\/p>\n

CFP committee chair Hunter Yurachek explained the decision to rank Oklahoma over Alabama. A quite simple answer, saying the head-to-head comes into play.<\/p>\n

\u201cOklahoma, obviously, got the nod based on their two-point win at [Alabama],\u201d Yurachek said. <\/p>\n

Both teams hold an 8-2 record heading into Week 13. Alabama previously sat at No. 4, meaning they dropped six spots to No. 10 due to the loss. Oklahoma moved up to No. 8 after previously being No. 11. There might have been an argument to be made for the Crimson Tide\u2019s overall resume but not a strong enough one to overcome the result from around 72 hours before.<\/p>\n

Two games remain on the regular season schedule for both. Alabama likely holds the easier path to the finish line, considering FCS Eastern Illinois<\/a> is next up. However, the Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium vs. Auburn<\/a> is no joke. Head coach Kalen DeBoer<\/a> knows his team will need to remain focused coming off the loss.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma gets two SEC games in Norman, beginning with Missouri<\/a> on Saturday. LSU<\/a> then comes to town a couple of days after Thanksgiving, one where the Sooners hope to be celebrating a 10-2 record and birth into the CFP. Tests have flown past Brent Venables<\/a> all season, passing a few and coming short in others. Two more passing grades get the job done.<\/p>\n

Hunter Yurachek answers original question about Miami, Notre Dame<\/p>\n

The answer provided by Yuracheck was originally a question about the situation regarding Miami and Notre Dame. In this scenario, the Hurricanes are comfortably below a team they beat to open the 2025 season despite the same record. ESPN\u2019s Rece Davis was wondering if the head-to-head played a role there.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Yuracheck got to that side of the equation. In the committee\u2019s eyes, Miami<\/a> and Notre Dame<\/a> are not currently in a \u201ccomparable range.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if Miami and Notre Dame are in a comparable tier, comparable range, the head-to-head will be a significant data point that we will use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slightly different than the situation with Alabama and Oklahoma, who are within a group of three. Notre Dame is right between them at No. 9, while Miami is back at No. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As usual, head-to-head is a popular topic in the latest College Football Playoff rankings. Specifically in the back-end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-300817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}