With three weeks to go in college football’s regular season, Alabama has vaulted to #1 in the Anderson & Hester Computer Rankings.  The 1-loss Crimson Tide, which beat previously undefeated Mississippi State on Saturday to move up from #3, edged undefeated Florida State in this week’s rankings (.816 to .813), while 1-loss Oregon (#3 at .803) and Mississippi State (#4 at .795) aren’t far behind.  There’s a relatively clear division between the top 4 teams and the rest of the field (with #5 TCU coming in at .780), so things should be pretty easy for the College Football Playoff (CFP) Selection Committee when it releases its rankings tonight.

The same four teams compose the top-4 in both major subjective polls — with the order flipped between Florida State and Alabama — and in the other three non-margin-of-victory-driven computer rankings that were part of the Bowl Championship Series Standings.  (The other two former BCS computer rankings, which now incorporate margin-of-victory (but didn’t during the past decade of the BCS), both rank undefeated Florida State outside of the top-5, and one ranks the (10-0) Seminoles behind 4-loss LSU.)