Alabama high school football computer rankings: Clay-Chalkville No. 1 in 6A (10/30/2023)
With the 2023 Alabama high school football playoffs just over a week away, there was significant movement in the latest SBLive Alabama football computer rankings.
In the 6A computer rankings, Clay-Chalkville (9-0) moved up to No. 1 after a 62-7 victory over Shades Valley. Helena (8-1) suffered the biggest drop, tumbling from No. 5 to No. 15 after a 20-17 loss to Benjamin Russell.
In SBLive's 7A football computer rankings, Central-Phenix City (8-0) held onto the top spot, while Auburn jumped from No. 7 to No. 4 after a 48-0 win over Prattville.
SBLive's computer rankings formula was created using its own linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm in order to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
Here are SBLive's latest Alabama football computer rankings:
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