The penultimate College Football Playoff Rankings were released Tuesday night, and outside of Alabama's loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl, the top of the rankings held firm. Ohio State, LSU, Clemson and Georgia remained in the top four spots. These are the only four teams that are guaranteed playoff spots with a victory in their respective conference championship games on Saturday.

Ohio State and LSU would each get into the playoff even with a loss.

The new No. 5 this week is Utah, a 45-15 winner over Colorado. Oklahoma comes in at No. 6 despite a 34-16 victory over No. 25 Oklahoma State, which further separated the strength of the Sooners' schedule from that of the Utes. So, while the committee did make one key substance-over-style switch (see below), it has not entirely committed to that mantra. Each team moved up one spot from last week.

While there were no significant changes at the top, there were a couple of moves that could impact the New Year's Six games.