AP College Football Poll 2016: Top 25 Rankings for Week 10

On Tuesday, the College Football Playoff selection committee will offer its first rankings of the 2016 season. If this weekend was any indication, that should be a great thing for Alabama.

The Crimson Tide, who were idle Saturday, remained the class of the Associated Press poll after a series of upsets and close calls. Michigan, Clemson, Washington, Louisville and Ohio State also held firm in the Top Six but did not get through their games without issue.

Here is a look at the full AP Top 25:

Of the power teams, Michigan had the easiest time, earning a 32-23 win over rival Michigan State. The Wolverines led 30-10 at one point before Michigan State scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns.

Clemson picked up a win over Florida State, though it wasn't without controversy. The Tigers pulled ahead for good with just over two minutes remaining when Deshaun Watson found Jordan Leggett for a 34-yard touchdown. Watson threw for 378 yards and two touchdowns but also tossed two interceptions.

The Seminoles could have extended a 28-26 lead to two scores early in the fourth quarter if it were not for a questionable illegal block call on a big Dalvin Cook run. Fullback Freddie Stevenson was whistled for blocking below the waist, and Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher sounded off on the penalty when speaking to reporters:

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Ridiculous. It's not a chop. I'm gonna tell you what: You hold coaches accountable, players accountable, hold the damn officials accountable. It's garbage. And then to call another penalty on the sideline is even more garbage. It's cowardly, gutless and wrong.

Now they can take it, fine it, do whatever they want to do with it.

That's a fact, look at the film. It's ridiculous that they did that. That was a huge call in the game. Still had a chance to win the game after that, but it's ridiculous. Guy wasn't even in position to make the play, plus it was 10 yards down the field, so the penalty should have been marked from there, not from the line of scrimmage.

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Washington also needed a late score to clinch a 31-24 win over Utah. Dante Pettis returned a punt 58 yards with 3:25 remaining, and the Huskies defense forced the Utes into a turnover on downs with less than a minute to go. Utah controlled the clock with 33 minutes, 33 seconds in time of possession, but Washington's Myles Gaskin rushed for 151 yards and a touchdown.

"It was awesome for Dante to get that return at the end because [Mitch Wishnowsky's] a heck of a punter," Huskies head coach coach Chris Petersen told reporters. "He's a weapon. We could get nothing. He just kept driving us back, driving us back. ... We finally got our chance, and Dante made a couple guys miss, and hats off to him.

"This is real football, Pac-12 football. ... This is how it goes; sometimes you have to grind out games in the fourth quarter."

Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson perhaps recorded his Heisman Trophy moment Saturday, leading the Cardinals on a 75-yard touchdown drive with less than two minutes remaining to wrap up a 32-25 win at Virginia. The Cavaliers, now 2-6, had taken a one-point lead on a successful two-point conversion with 1:57 left, but Jackson guided his offense down the field and hit Jaylen Smith from 29 yards out for the game-winning touchdown.

Jackson threw for four touchdowns and notched 449 total yards.

The weekend also featured the first losses for a number of teams that were eyeing the playoff. Nebraska didn't survive its first big test of the year, losing 23-17 in overtime at Wisconsin. Texas may have saved Charlie Strong's job by upsetting then-No. 8 Baylor 35-34, while West Virginia lost at Oklahoma State 37-20 and Boise State fell at Wyoming 30-28 on a safety with 1:25 to play.

Texas A&M, which beat lowly New Mexico State 52-10, was the only team from last week's Top 10 that won by 10 or more points.