UNDATED (AP) — Georgia, Alabama, Michigan State and Oregon are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season with Ohio State and Cincinnati up next. The unbeaten Bearcats have the best ranking ever in the selection committee’s Top 25 for a team from outside the Power Five conferences, but are still behind three teams (Alabama, Oregon and Ohio State) that have already lost a game. Cincinnati is trying to become the first non-Power Five team to make the playoff. Michigan, Oklahoma, Wake Forest and Notre Dame rounded out the top 10. Only once in the seven-year history of the CFP have the four teams in the committee’s initial ranking made the final four. That was last season.

UNDATED (AP) — A year after the NCAA gave athletes Election Day off, football teams all over the country were back practicing on the first Tuesday in November. Teams can pursue waivers and many did so, including some in places with significant elections on the ballot. A ballot question that could reshape policing in Minneapolis drew national attention in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd last year. Minnesota was one of the programs that requested a waiver for football practice.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville coach Scott Satterfield says that top cover corner Kei’Trel Clark will miss the remainder of this season after tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament during Saturday night’s Atlantic Coast Conference loss at North Carolina State. Satterfield announced the sophomore cornerback’s diagnosis during his weekly news conference. He said Clark underwent an MRI and will have surgery on the knee. Clark had emerged into one of the ACC’s top cover players and led the conference with 12 passes defended, including three interceptions. He’s the third Cardinals starter lost to a season-ending injury, following linebacker Monty Montgomery and receiver Braden Smith.

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