College Football Playoff Picture: Here’s what the 12-team bracket looks like after Week 6

It’s never too early to start thinking about the College Football Playoff field.

With this season’s playoff expanding to 12 teams, we’ll be laying out the projected playoff field each week as the season goes on. Yeah, the official playoff rankings won’t be released until Nov. 5, but that won’t stop us from making our own guesses.

Without CFP rankings as our guide, we’ll mostly rely on the AP Top 25 as our barometer to project the field. The CFP rankings and AP poll typically have many more similarities than differences at the end of the season. Here’s what the provisional playoff field looks like after a weekend of monumental upsets.

First-round byes

1. Texas (5-0, projected SEC champion)

The Longhorns regained the top spot in the AP Top 25 without having to do anything in Week 6. Thanks to Alabama’s loss at Vanderbilt, Texas moved up from No. 2. We figured the voting between Texas and Ohio State would be close, but it wasn’t. The Longhorns play in Dallas on Saturday in their annual rivalry game with No. 19 Oklahoma.

2. Ohio State (5-0, projected Big Ten champion)

Ohio State had a convincing win over Iowa on Saturday. The Hawkeyes didn’t score until the backups were in for the Buckeyes in the second half. Jeremiah Smith fumbled, but he also had another one-handed TD catch and the offense was no match for a very good Iowa defense. The Buckeyes travel to Oregon in Week 7 for a matchup of top-three teams in the game of the week.

3. Miami (6-0, projected ACC champion)

The Hurricanes needed a huge comeback to stay undefeated. Cal led 35-10 in the second half before Miami stormed back to grab a 39-38 win with less than 30 seconds to go. The Hurricanes need to stop living so dangerously; they’re bound to lose a game if they keep needing second-half comebacks like they have over the past two weeks.

4. Iowa…

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Publish date : 2024-10-08 13:22:35

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