Second verse, same as the first.

All the debate about resumes, eye tests and quality of competition since Saturday’s games turned out to be much ado about nothing. When the College Football Playoff Committee announced its 2nd weekly rankings on Tuesday, the top 8 teams were exactly the same as they were in the 1st poll a week earlier.

Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan and Florida State continue to hold down positions 1-4, with Washington still lurking at No. 6, just waiting for somebody to slip.

Here’s how the entire top 25 stacks up:

Now let’s dive into some takeaways and try to make some sense of what it all means.

1. It’s still all about winning

Talk all you want about style points. And believe me, there’s been a lot of that since Saturday. But if this week’s rankings are an accurate indication, the most important points to the committee are those on the scoreboard.

Specifically, making sure that you end up with more than the other team.

Otherwise, Georgia would have leapfrogged Ohio State into the top spot. It’s not that the 2-time defending champion Bulldogs looked like a juggernaut in beating Missouri. But holding off a ranked opponent is still a better look than struggling to beat Rutgers.

Washington also made a case to flip-flop with Florida State after hanging 52 points on Southern Cal and making reigning Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams cry while the Seminoles slogged their way to a pedestrian win at lowly Pittsburgh. But none of that seemed to matter with the committee. The bottom line continues to be the bottom line.

At least until next week.

2. One-bid leagues

Usually by this time of the season, at least 1, sometimes 2 conferences have already been dropped out of serious Playoff consideration and the conversation shifts to how many SEC schools will end up in the 4-team bracket.

That’s not the case this year.

Four of the Power 5 leagues still have undefeated teams in the hunt with 1-loss Texas at No. 7, right in the thick of things for the Big 12 should anyone above it slip. This week’s schedule should provide a lot more clarity among the best of the rest with No. 3 Michigan facing its 1st real test of the year at No. 10 Penn State, No. 9 Ole Miss at No. 2 UGA and No. 6 Oregon at USC.

3. The team that got more love than I thought? Campbell

Wait. What?

The 4-5 Campbell Camels? A FCS team?

Yup.

Apparently the committee thought so much of Campbell that they elevated North Carolina back into the rankings for beating them. The 7-2 Tar Heels, who were once rated as high as No. 10 in the traditional polls, fell off the grid after back-to-back losses to Virginia and Georgia Tech.

But Drake Maye worked his magic by throwing 4 touchdown passes, including 2 to Tez Walker, in a 59-7 beatdown of the overmatched Camels. And that was enough to catapult them back up to No. 24.

4. The team that got less love than I thought? No. 14 Missouri

If you’re a glass half full kind of person, you can look at the Tigers dropping only 2 spots from No. 12 to No. 14 despite suffering their 2nd loss of the season. But just as much of an argument can be made that Eliah Drinkwitz’s team shouldn’t have fallen at all.

Not many teams are capable of going into Athens and making the Dawgs work for their W as hard as they had to on Saturday. It was a 1-score game well into the 4th quarter and the outcome was still in serious doubt until 320-pound defensive tackle Nazir Stackhouse came up with the big man interception Kirby Smart called “the biggest play of the game.”

Even in defeat, the Tigers deserved better.

5. Resume killers

If there eventually comes a time in which the committee has to compare resumes to determine if a team is out or out of the Playoff bracket, Saturday’s results could indirectly end up haunting both Ohio State and Florida State.

Notre Dame’s loss at Clemson dropped the Irish 5 spots in the rankings, down to No. 20, a dip that will severely devalue the Buckeyes’ come-from-behind win in South Bend on Sept. 24. At least Ohio State’s resume will be able to withstand the hit more than the one LSU laid on the Seminoles.

A win against the Tigers on Labor Day Sunday is by far the best win on FSU’s resume. But a lot of the shine is coming off that victory now that LSU has dropped to 6-3 and No. 19 in the rankings after falling apart in the 2nd half against Alabama.