Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M, Georgia top latest CFP rankings - ESPN

Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M remained the top three teams in the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday, while Alabama dropped six spots to No. 10 after its loss to Oklahoma.

The Crimson Tide are now behind No. 9 Notre Dame, even though they have more top-25 victories (four) than the Irish (one). Georgia, which Alabama beat in September, moved up to No. 4, while Texas Tech moved up to No. 5, Ole Miss to No. 6, Oregon to No. 7 and Oklahoma up three spots to No. 8 after its 23-21 win in Tuscaloosa.

BYU is ranked No. 11, followed by Utah at No. 12, Miami at No. 13, Vanderbilt at No. 14 and USC at No. 15. The Hurricanes jumped two spots after a 41-7 win over NC State, but they are four spots behind Notre Dame — a big point of contention among those at Miami and in the ACC. The two teams have the same 8-2 record, but Miami beat Notre Dame 27-24 to open the season.

Earlier this week, Miami coach Mario Cristobal was asked how head-to-head games should be viewed in CFP résumé comparisons and he said, «The No. 1 criteria is always head-to-head. It's why we play the game, right? That always has been and always will be the No. 1 factor.»

The big difference between the teams is the losses: Notre Dame lost close games to two ranked teams (Miami and Texas A&M), and Miami lost to two unranked teams (Louisville, SMU).

«Miami needs to continue to win the football games they have in front of them, and good things will happen,» said Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek, who took over this week as chair of the selection committee and answered more questions about the Canes than any other team in the rankings.

Yurachek said on the ESPN broadcast that to this point, «we really haven't compared those teams,»