The College Football Playoff committee put Alabama No. 3 and Tennessee No. 8 on Tuesday night. Same 7-2 record. Tennessee beat Alabama 26-10. I made a video about it, because I can’t make it make sense.

Here are the two résumés, side by side:

• Tennessee (7-2, CFP No. 8): beat Alabama 26-10 in Knoxville on Oct. 17, beat Kentucky 34-6 last Saturday. Lost to Texas 20-17 and at South Carolina 27-24. Both losses by a field goal.
• Alabama (7-2, CFP No. 3): won 45-17 at Kentucky and 31-13 at LSU last Saturday. Lost to Georgia 20-17 at home and to Tennessee 26-10.

I’ll be fair to Alabama. Winning at LSU is a good win, and the Tide went to Lexington and won by 28. That’s a real résumé. But Tennessee has a win over Alabama, and it wasn’t close. Sixteen points. Alabama doesn’t have a win over Tennessee. That’s the whole conversation.

The committee says head-to-head is one of its tiebreakers. If it doesn’t apply to two teams with the same record, in the same conference, when one won by 16, when does it apply? There are four teams between them. That’s not a tiebreaker. That’s a shrug.

The good news: rankings in November are a rough draft. Tennessee goes to Texas A&M on Saturday at 2 p.m. Central on ESPN. Win at Kyle Field and the committee has to look at it again.

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Jeremy Durham is a sports columnist for TriStar Daily and the founder of Five and a Fade.