The CFP committee's second rankings lift Notre Dame six spots to No. 5 and put Georgia first

Georgia is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff selection committee's second rankings of the season, released Tuesday night. The 8-1 Bulldogs moved up one spot after previous No. 1 Miami lost 31-24 at Notre Dame.

The top 12

1. Georgia (8-1)
2. Utah (9-0)
3. Alabama (7-2)
4. UCLA (9-0)
5. Notre Dame (8-1)
6. Texas (7-2)
7. Miami (8-1)
8. Tennessee (7-2)
9. Indiana (8-1)
10. BYU (7-2)
11. Kentucky (7-2)
12. Texas Tech (8-1)

The biggest moves

Notre Dame climbed six spots from No. 11 to No. 5. "They looked like the Notre Dame team that should be ranked No. 5," committee chair Hunter Yurachek said on ESPN's release show. Miami fell six spots to No. 7, behind two-loss Alabama and Texas.

UCLA, still unbeaten, rose four spots to No. 4. Tennessee jumped five to No. 8 after its 34-6 win over Kentucky. Indiana dropped five spots to No. 9 in a week it did not play. Oregon moved up seven to No. 16, and Ohio State fell eight spots to No. 20 after losing 41-28 to Oregon, according to ESPN.

Yurachek defended Alabama at No. 3, saying the Crimson Tide are "No. 1 in record strength, No. 1 in schedule strength" and calling the 31-13 win at LSU part of their case.

If the season ended today

Five conference champions get guaranteed spots in the 12-team field, so No. 24 Boise State would take the last place from Texas Tech. Georgia, Utah, Alabama and UCLA would get first-round byes. The first-round games, on the higher seed's campus Dec. 18 and 19, would be:

1. No. 9 Indiana at No. 8 Tennessee, with the winner facing Georgia
2. No. 12 Boise State at No. 5 Notre Dame, with the winner facing UCLA
3. No. 11 Kentucky at No. 6 Texas, with the winner facing Alabama
4. No. 10 BYU at No. 7 Miami, with the winner facing Utah

Nine SEC teams are in the top 25, and the ACC has two. Wake Forest (8-1), the ACC's second-best team, moved up three spots to No. 13. The committee releases new rankings every Tuesday until the final top 25 on Sunday, Dec. 6. The national championship game is Jan. 25 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.