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College Football Playoff 2024 projections: Hello Deion! Colorado is in as the No. 4 seed

College Football Playoff 2024 projections: Hello Deion! Colorado is in as the No. 4 seed

Alabama’s 42-13 blitzkrieg at LSU coupled with Ole Miss’ 28-10 rout of Georgia has created quite the muddled mess in the SEC. At least eight different teams could still reach the SEC Championship Game. For the purposes of this exercise, I’m projecting the Dawgs to beat Tennessee next week and Texas to win at Texas […]

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What we learned about the CFP in Week 11: Mizzou’s ‘Playoff hunt’? One-bid ACC? Assume nothing

What we learned about the CFP in Week 11: Mizzou’s ‘Playoff hunt’? One-bid ACC? Assume nothing

The 12-team College Football Playoff has made it challenging to pinpoint just how big the fall’s biggest games are. For decades, the result of a regular-season game could feel definitive. Even if it wasn’t quite so, it could be pretty darn close. That’s not the case anymore. After the number of unbeaten teams shrunk to

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Week 11’s top 10 college football games: SEC eliminations and Colorado’s surge

Week 11’s top 10 college football games: SEC eliminations and Colorado’s surge

It’s an admittedly subdued batch of games this weekend, but even that includes a pair of top-20 SEC clashes, Colorado and Deion Sanders on the road in a big spot, a handful of undefeated teams with intriguing matchups and a whole lot of College Football Playoff implications. Let’s rank the top 10 games of Week

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College football Week 11 oddly specific predictions: Down go the Hoosiers!

College football Week 11 oddly specific predictions: Down go the Hoosiers!

Picking Penn State to lose to Ohio State does not deserve a victory lap. Losing big games is what the Nittany Lions do. Like James Franklin, I deserved to get booed off the field last week after posting an embarrassing 4-5 record picking up straight-up winners. My 59-31 overall record for the season feels especially

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College Football Playoff rankings revealed: Oregon takes top spot, who snuck into top 12?

College Football Playoff rankings revealed: Oregon takes top spot, who snuck into top 12?

Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Miami and Texas were the top five ranked teams Tuesday night in the first College Football Playoff rankings under a 12-team format, with No. 13 SMU, No. 14 Texas A&M and No. 15 LSU starting the championship race just outside the cutoff to make the newly expanded field. No. 12 Boise

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Predicting the first 12-team College Football Playoff selection committee rankings

Predicting the first 12-team College Football Playoff selection committee rankings

The first College Football Playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday night (7 p.m. ET), and once again I’ll be using my projections model to try to predict how the selection committee will rank the teams each week. I’ve studied metrics that have been valued by the committee in the past, and after some guess and

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College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: Could Deion Sanders, Colorado sneak into field?

College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: Could Deion Sanders, Colorado sneak into field?

On Saturday, while Deion Sanders and Colorado sat at home and Travis Hunter did a Heisman Trophy media tour of national pregame shows, the Buffaloes were among the biggest winners in the College Football Playoff race. Iowa State lost at home to Texas Tech and trimmed the list of undefeated Big 12 teams to just

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AP Top 25: Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Miami lead poll ahead of first Playoff rankings

AP Top 25: Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, Miami lead poll ahead of first Playoff rankings

In the last AP Top 25 before the College Football Playoff selection committee weighs in, Oregon became the first team to be a unanimous No. 1 during the past three regular seasons and No. 8 Indiana and No. 13 SMU both surged up the rankings Sunday. The Ducks received 62 first-place votes, winning over the

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Week 9’s top 10 college football games: An SEC showdown for first place, upset alerts and more

Week 9’s top 10 college football games: An SEC showdown for first place, upset alerts and more

It’s a compelling slate of games this weekend, including five ranked matchups, four of which feature double-digit spreads. (Any chance the favorites cover — or even win — all of those?) Plus a Friday night bout that could determine the Group of 5 team in the College Football Playoff, as well as an undefeated team

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