College Football · The Comeback

‘Alabama has no business being where they are’: Paul Finebaum says CFP ranking ‘doesn’t make any sense’

Published by The Comeback on November 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM ET

ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum has spent much of his career defending and praising the Alabama Crimson Tide and the SEC, but even he had a problem with how high the Crimson Tide were ranked in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season. The ESPN analyst called the rankings “about as discombobulated a ranking…

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