Quarterback Deshaun Watson and Clemson were atop the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, which were released Tuesday. ETHAN HYMAN, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER/TNS Clemson, LSU, Ohio State and Alabama are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff selection committee rankings of the season. Notre Dame was fifth and Baylor was sixth. Clemson (8-0), LSU (7-0) and Ohio State (8-0) are among 11 unbeaten teams in FBS, nearly quadruple the number there was last season when the committee started ranking teams. Alabama (No. 4), which plays host to LSU on Saturday, and Notre Dame (No. 5) are both 7-1, but were seeded ahead of Baylor (7-0), No. 7 Michigan State (8-0) and No. 8 TCU (8-0). For TCU, which missed a playoff spot last season when the Horned Frogs fell from third to sixth in the final set of CFP rankings despite a 55-3 victory over Iowa State to close the regular season, Tuesday’s rankings brought back some uncomfortable memories from last season. TCU and Baylor, last year’s Big 12 co-champions, were the two highest-ranked teams left out of the 2014 playoff field. The schools finished fifth (Baylor) and sixth (TCU) in last year’s final rankings, opening up the No. …
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