Nov 12, 2024 - 14:21
By foxnews.com

College football playoff predictions: SMU, Ole Miss in; Georgia, Miami out

So far this season, Indiana, BYU and Army have each begun the season 9-0, with the Hoosier Daddies becoming the first to earn their 10th win this season. Not bad for a program that had gone 9-27 over the past three years.

For the first time in the College Football Playoff era, the SEC is a free-for-all without a single undefeated team. Neither of the two teams at the top of the SEC standings — Tennessee and Texas A&M — have won the conference title in the CFP era. Perennial cellar dweller Vanderbilt upset then-No. 1 Alabama after the Crimson Tide upset then-No. 2 Georgia. And Georgia? It lost to Ole Miss on Saturday, the Bulldogs’ first defeat against a team other than Alabama since Nov. 7, 2020.

Georgia Tech beat a team that had begun the season 9-0, Miami (Fla.), for just the second time since the AP poll was created in 1936.

Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel became the FBS’s all-time leader in touchdowns and leads the No. 1 team in the country. Yet no one is sure the Ducks are going to win the national title in the first year of a 12-team playoff, which means that one thing remains true: these projections will change at least once more.

That said, let's get to my updated CFP projections:

1. Oregon
Conference: Big Ten
Record: 10-0

2. Texas
Conference: SEC
Record: 8-1

3. BYU
Conference: Big 12
Record: 9-0

4. SMU
Conference: ACC
Record: 8-1

5. Ohio State
Conference: Big Ten
Record: 8-1

6. Indiana
Conference: Big Ten
Record: 10-0

7. Tennessee
Conference: SEC
Record: 8-1

8. Penn State
Conference: Big Ten
Record: 8-1

9. Notre Dame
Conference: Independent
Record: 8-1

10. Alabama
Conference: SEC
Record: 7-2

11. Ole Miss
Conference: SEC
Record: 8-2