Both the college football rankings and the College Football Playoff picture took a sharp turn on Saturday. More than a half-dozen ranked teams took losses, leaving voters — and the selection committee — with some tough decisions when it comes to sorting out the new top 25.

The Crimson Tide are also the second-highest ranked SEC team in the latest AP Poll, trailing only the No. 3 ranked Texas Longhorns. Texas sits behind only the Oregon Ducks and Ohio State Buckeyes, which are at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

Alabama football’s College Football Playoff dreams were likely crushed on Saturday, when it lost 24-3 at Oklahoma for its third defeat of the season. On Sunday, the latest coaches top 25 poll update added insult to injury.

The Crimson Tide was ranked No. 13 in both the Coaches and AP Top 25 Poll after its 24-3 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners and the College Football Playoff committee agreed ranking the

A pair of top-10 teams from the SEC lost to unranked teams on Saturday, part of a day of upsets up and down the AP Top 25 poll that reshaped the new rankings Sunday.

Alabama is not out of the College Football Playoff race. All it takes is Tennessee losing again on the road in the SEC.

The fourth College Football Playoff rankings had consistency at the top and answered some key questions ahead of an important Week 14.

The Alabama Crimson Tide are in danger of missing out on the College Football Playoff, which no one predicted once it expanded to 12 teams.

It did not include Alabama or Mississippi of the SEC, both of which suffered their third losses of the season last week. That helped place SMU in the ninth spot, joining No. 6 Miami to give the Atlantic Coast Conference two teams in the 12-team bracket.