CFP Committee chair tells why Alabama moved up, remains ahead of Tennessee

The College Football Playoff Committee Chairman Hunter Yurachek provided an explanation for why the committee remains high on Alabama.

The Crimson Tide moved up to No. 3 in the latest College Football Playoff Rankings after beating LSU 31-13 in Baton Rouge,

“They have four, what we call quality wins because we continue to call that win against Mississippi State earlier in the year when they had Kamario Taylor on their team, they were 4-0, Alabama went there and won that game,” Yurachek said while explaining Alabama’s No. 3 ranking on ESPN. “So Alabama, we believe, deserves to be the number three team in the country.”

Yurachek also explained why Tennessee and Alabama remained incomparable, making the head-to-head result of their game earlier this season not hold as much weight.

“Alabama was in that first pool,” Yurachek said. “Tennessee was not in that first pool. Tennessee’s got a couple of quality wins in the win they had (over) Kentucky, and, obviously, the win they have against Alabama. They’ve got three wins against teams that their schedule strength is 110 and above. And so when you look at their schedule compared to Alabama’s schedule, the committee feels like, and so does the metrics that Alabama’s got a stronger schedule, and that’s why Alabama was in that first pool of teams and Tennessee was not.”

Alabama will take on Vanderbilt on Saturday.