Another Texas team -- SMU -- moved up to No. 8 in the CFP rankings and has a date with Clemson in the ACC championship game. Clemson is the No. 17 team in the new CFP poll. Here are the new College Football Playoff rankings, as of Tuesday, Dec. 3.

Texas held onto a first-round bye under the latest College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night but could possibly play Georgia in consecutive games and for a third time this season in the quarterfinals.

Texas earned the No. 2 ranking and No. 2 seed on Tuesday when the CFP committee released the newest rankings and projections for its 12-team playoff.

A longtime offensive coordinator under Bill Snyder at his alma mater Kansas State, Dana Dimel served this past season as an assistant at Illinois.

Illinois assistant coach Dana Dimel, who was an All-American offensive tackle for Kansas State and later became the head coach at Wyoming, Houston and UTEP, died Tuesday. He was 62. Dimel's wife, Julie,

Dana Dimel, an assistant this season at Illinois and a longtime college coach who led programs at Wyoming, Houston and UTEP, died Tuesday at 62.

Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair has been suspended for three games without pay for his "illegal hit" on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence during their matchup on Sunday.

Houston’s Azeez Al-Shaair was suspended by the NFL without pay for three games for repeated violations of player safety rules following his hit to the head of Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence,

The Texans linebacker was ejected for his hit on Lawrence, which left the Jaguars’ quarterback with a concussion.