Early College Football Playoff projection for Penn State on Selection Sunday

The College Football Playoff may be expanding to 12 teams this season, but there will be plenty of scrutiny over who gets in, who gets left out, and where teams are seeded by the selection committee. Penn State’s situation, for instance, could go a number of different ways after losing in the Big Ten championship game to Oregon. Trying to figure out how the committee operates on a week-to-week basis is a mighty challenge, and you never know exactly how they will handle certain situations until they reveal their updated rankings.

The selection committee will make its final decisions on Sunday with the final rankings and seeding for this year’s College Football Playoff. Penn State will be in the field, but where and who will they be playing?

Here is a guess as to how the playoff will be seeded.

The Top 4 Seeds

Oregon (Big Ten champion)

Georgia (SEC champion)

Boise State (Mountain West Conference champion)

Arizona State (Big 12 champion)

This is the easy part to figure out, starting with the top two seeds. Oregon will be the top seed after completing a 13-0 season with the Big Ten championship. They are the only undefeated team in the field and are a lock to be the top team going into the playoff. Georgia, as SEC champion, will be the easy pick for the second overall seed after taking down no. 2 Texas in Atlanta on Saturday.

I do believe Boise State will hold off the surging Big 12 champion Arizona State Sun Devils for the third seed, but I would not argue if you wanted to put Arizona State ahead of the Mountain West Conference champion.

First-round matchups

5. Texas vs. 12. Clemson (ACC champion)

6. Penn State 11. SMU

7. Notre Dame vs. 10. Indiana

8. Ohio State vs. 9. Tennessee

I have had lingering doubts about whether I trust the selection committee to keep SMU in the playoff if they lost the ACC championship game. I hesitated…

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Author : Nittany Lions Wire

Publish date : 2024-12-08 09:00:00

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