College Football Playoff Bracket Week 9 Live Projections: What Contenders Need To Do

Week 9 should beryllium nan week that we abstracted nan contenders from nan pretenders. 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 a.m. ET Saturday:

We’re conscionable 2 weeks distant from nan action committee gathering successful Dallas, which intends each game’s value ramps up respective notches for teams successful nan moving to make nan bracket. Saturday features plentifulness of tricky tests connected nan roadworthy for a slate of contenders, too. As of now, location are not a ton of changes from nan measurement past play wrapped up, but that does not fig to beryllium nan lawsuit aft nan first group of kickoffs successful nan noon ET slate.

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

First Round

No. 12 South Florida astatine No. 5 Georgia

USF has 2 tricky games near successful its quest to make it to nan American title crippled successful December and going connected nan roadworthy to Memphis is nan overmuch bigger matchup successful position of talent connected Saturday afternoon. Another convincing triumph successful convention play should further solidify their spot arsenic nan Group of 5’s champion up of nan committee’s first meeting.

A crippled against Oklahoma State is nary spot to unreserved backmost starting QB Behren Morton if you’re Texas Tech, but that crippled against BYU looms ample successful nan Big 12 title and you dream astatine immoderate constituent he tin beryllium backmost adjacent week to show what nan squad is tin of astatine nan precocious end. 

No. 10 Georgia Tech astatine No. 7 Oregon

The Ducks are leaning afloat into nan Grateful Dead taxable pinch their uniforms coming against Wisconsin but request to beryllium mindful of making judge nan people is moreover much eye-opening against an force for illustration nan Badgers. It wouldn’t wounded for either Oregon aliases nan undefeated Yellow Jackets if they could person immoderate of their upcoming opponents to triumph this week excessively fixed really ray nan resume is successful position of Top 25 wins.

Just ideate if Diego Pavia were successful nan Grove successful mid-December, playing for nan correct to spell to nan Rose Bowl. If that doesn’t opportunity this play is 2007-esque, not overmuch will. The Rebels looked awesome against Georgia connected nan roadworthy but severely request to unafraid a triumph this week astatine Oklahoma if they want to support dream for hosting a CFP location game. 

Orange Bowl: No. 4 Alabama

You person to wonderment if there’s astatine slightest a small regression coming for nan Tide aft moving disconnected 4 Top 25 wins successful a row. South Carolina could beryllium a small trap crippled connected nan roadworthy if Kalen DeBoer’s squad isn’t careful. 

Rain is forecast each time successful Baton Rouge, which figures to make an already reliable nighttime crippled successful Death Valley against LSU moreover tougher. If they triumph however, you tin astir apt guidelines a divided against Missouri and Texas to make nan CFP if you’re nan Aggies.

Cotton Bowl: No. 2 Indiana

On a reasonably quiet week for nan Big Ten, having Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff travel to Bloomington, Ind., offers up a bully opportunity for nan Hoosiers to punctual everyone conscionable really bully they are.

There’s conscionable 1 squad near connected nan Buckeyes’ schedule pinch a winning grounds correct now. Does this make for a November worthy of tune-ups until play defining trips to Ann Arbor, Mich., and Indianapolis? 

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