College football takeaways: Storylines and performances to know from Week 14 - ESPN

Rivalry week brought us many entertaining moments as brawls broke out, flags were planted and teams were eliminated from title races.

No. 2 Ohio State lost to Michigan for the fourth consecutive time. As Ohio State was favored by three touchdowns going into the matchup against the unranked Wolverines, where do the Buckeyes go from here?

With the final College Football Playoff rankings less than a week away, we know the top four seeds will be from among the highest-ranked Power 4 conference title winners and the winner of UNLV-Boise State. With some debate on who could land the final CFP spot, could it be Ole Miss? South Carolina?

Our college football experts break down key storylines and takeaways from Week 14.

Someone is always going to be left out, but when the final bracket is revealed on Selection Day, odds are there will be one or two three-loss SEC teams (maybe Alabama, Ole Miss and/or South Carolina), that are excluded but are talented enough to make a run at it — if there were room. The question is how much angst SEC commissioner Greg Sankey will have over it, and whether it's enough to prompt him to support a 14-team playoff in the next iteration. Before Texas beat Texas A&M on Saturday night, Sankey began his annual push for the SEC.

«I think going week-to-week to see things in person: The physical rigor, the intensity means that we should have three[-loss] teams fully under consideration and I said that at the beginning of the year,» Sankey said, according to the Houston Chronicle.

And if they don't get considered? A 14-team bracket would change it. — Heather Dinich

Day vowed all year that he wouldn't lose to the Wolverines again. Not after three straight losses in the rivalry. Not with the program investing