Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State are all on track to earn playoff invitations, and those four schools are landing the nation’s top high school recruiting classes. It represents one more example of how the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten have separated themselves from all the other leagues.

Texas holds the top spot, but Georgia is positioned to jump ahead with a key five-star target expected to pick the Bulldogs on Friday.

Another Texas team -- SMU -- moved up to No. 8 in the CFP rankings and has a date with Clemson in the ACC championship game. Clemson is the No. 17 team in the new CFP poll. Here are the new College Football Playoff rankings, as of Tuesday, Dec. 3.

No. 1 Oregon and No. 2 Texas are one win away from locking up the top two seeds in the College Football Playoff after the release of the penultimate CFP Rankings on Tuesday. SMU projects as the 3-seed ACC champion,