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SP+ rankings after Week 14: Why Alabama doesn't drop after Iron Bowl loss

Rivalry Week was a strange ride that featured multiple brawls, saw a game decided by a dog urination impression (and the missed PAT that followed), and assured us of college football's first Bama-free College Football Playoff.

It didn't change much about how we view the top teams, however. The top four teams in the CFP rankings all demolished their competition, and it took a wild set of unlikely occurrences -- two pick sixes (including one deflected off of an offensive player's back), a missed short field goal for the loser, four long-bomb FGs for the winner, and the funniest and most important illegal participation penalty you'll ever see -- to knock Alabama backwards.