BATON ROUGE - The LSU Tiger football team was ranked 14th in the first college football playoff rankings of the season on Tuesday night.

The Tigers are 6-2 on the season with a trio of daunting games over the next three weeks as they will host Alabama, Texas and travel to Tennessee before closing out the year on the road at Arkansas.

THE FIRST CFP BRACKET PROJECTION OF THE SEASON?? If the CFP started today, would your team be playing in it? ?? https://t.co/Lw6RaA8O22

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Alabama was surprisingly ranked 5th in the release while Texas is ranked 7th and Tennessee was ranked 13th in the same rankings.

LSU is ranked 15th in most recent Associated Press Top 25 poll.