College Football Playoff Bracket Week 10 Live Projections: Group Of 5 Bid Up For Grabs

Week 10 offers existent tests for a fistful of College Football Playoff contenders. Throughout Saturday’s slate, Sports Illustrated will springiness an updated look astatine nan playoff seeding and matchups. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir nan existent CFP race:

Update astatine 11 p.m. ET Friday:

It judge seems for illustration nan American really loves to walk nan Group of 5 bid baton astir each week fixed nan number of upsets we’ve seen lately. First it was South Florida, past it was Memphis and this week it was Tulane. None of those teams is retired of nan moving yet, and North Texas besides lurks successful nan background, but it is becoming rather nan absorbing title arsenic we spell into nan last play without College Football Playoff action committee rankings to facet in.

1. Ohio State
2. Indiana
3. Texas A&M
4. Alabama 
5. Georgia
6. Miami
7. Mississippi 
8. Vanderbilt 
9. Oregon
10. Georgia Tech
11. Texas Tech
12. South Florida

First Round

No. 12 South Florida astatine No. 5 Georgia

The Bulls divided their 2 toughest games successful convention play but still person 2 tricky fixtures coming up pinch UTSA and a travel to Navy. They’re backmost successful rod position for nan convention title and CFP bid but can’t place nan adjacent period and making an belief connected nan committee. As for Kirby Smart’s team, they request immoderate thief to make it to nan SEC title game, but agelong word it mightiness beryllium champion if they miss nan travel to Atlanta, onshore a location crippled against nan Group of 5 squad and past tin person different changeable astatine Alabama successful Miami.

The only point opinionated betwixt a travel to Arlington, Texas, for nan first Red Raiders quality successful nan Big 12 title crippled is simply a travel to nan graveyard that is nan Little Apple connected Saturday and a location crippled against undefeated BYU. Meanwhile, nan Hurricanes deed nan roadworthy for their first travel extracurricular nan authorities of Florida arsenic they return connected 1 of nan ACC representatives successful nan CFP from past season.

No. 10 Georgia Tech astatine No. 7 Mississippi

For each nan talk of nan Yellow Jackets’ ray schedule, not capable attraction is being paid to really they’re getting amended by nan week and starting to put much opponents distant earlier nan 4th quarter. We’ll spot if that continues pinch 2 much roadworthy trips connected deck. 

Could you ideate Broadway up of a first-round CFP crippled (or afterwards, for that matter)? That’s wherever nan Commodores are astatine pursuing nan Top 25 wins they’ve been capable to stack up. Ducks fans whitethorn beryllium concerned astir not getting a location crippled but that tin return attraction of itself successful owed clip fixed nan backend of their Big Ten schedule. 

Orange Bowl: No. 4 Alabama

Interesting exercise: What would person to hap for nan Tide to get near retired of nan CFP astatine this point? Losing 2 of their last 3 SEC games, contempt LSU and Oklahoma coming to Tuscaloosa, Ala.? Even then, nan victories complete Georgia, Vandy, Missouri and Tennessee mightiness still springiness them a changeable astatine 9–3.

Quite nan week for nan Aggies wherever they not only sewage 1 of nan biggest victories successful caller representation successful Baton Rouge, but besides look to person caused an unthinkable situation of assurance astatine LSU successful nan process.

Cotton Bowl: No. 2 Indiana

The astir absorbing statement nan action committee could person adjacent week is if Indiana should beryllium nan No. 1 squad successful nan state complete Ohio State fixed its amended wins, aliases if it should really beryllium down Texas A&M fixed nan spot of nan Aggies’ record. 

It’s still worthy a double-take to spot that nan Buckeyes are allowing conscionable 5.9 points per crippled and person allowed four touchdowns done November. Oh, and young backmost Julian Sayin only happens to lead nan state successful passing ratio and completion percentage. That should dress up for nan anemic résumé successful nan action committee room.

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