Tuesday’s fifth set of 2024 College Football Playoff rankings set off a flurry of controversy after Alabama made it into the bracket field over Miami and Ohio State only fell to the sixth spot after losing to Michigan.

Late Tuesday night, the athletic directors at Iowa State and SMU got into a social media scrap centering on the other school’s comparative strength of schedule. “Stay off my lawn!” SMU AD Rick Hart wrote to Iowa State AD Jamie Pollard after Pollard belittled the Mustangs' slate of opponents.

Alabama is back in the hunt for a national championship after the latest CFP rankings were released Tuesday night.