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College Football Bowl Projections, Playoff Field Predictions After Week 14

by Staff Reporter

December 2, 202424 Comments

Larry McCormack / The Tennessean, Nashville Tennessean via Imagn Content Services, LLC

College Football Insider Brett McMurphy of Action Network updated his Bowl projections and playoff predictions following the Week 14 slate.

Last week, McMurphy had LSU playing Wisconsin in the Music City Bowl, but now he is projecting Minnesota as the Tigers' opponent in Nashville.

Music City Bowl
Dec. 30 • Nashville, TN
LSU vs. Minnesota

Projected College Football Playoff Field:
1. Oregon*
2. Texas*
3. SMU*
4. Arizona State*
5. Notre Dame
6. Penn State
7. Georgia
8. Ohio State
9. Tennessee
10. Indiana
11. Alabama
12. UNLV*

*Conference champions projected to receive automatic bids

National Championship
Jan. 20 • Atlanta, GA
Oregon vs. Georgia

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Champagne•6 months

Bama is not only In this season, but, they will be In the playoffs EVERY season because they are Bama.

bluebuck1•6 months

You right, iBack8569. What the hell are they thinking? BAMA has two ugly loses.

brtiger77•6 months

I wish they would redo the way they make bowl matchups. Just literally pick the most interesting matchups and work down the list

Morpheus•6 months

God another boring Big 10 matchup. Yay!

tarzana•6 months

Alabama in the playoff field this year is disgusting, and I won't stand for it. They got one good win and at least two bad losses. It makes no sense

iBack8569•6 months

Losing games has to matter. Alabama lost to Vanderbilt and got slapped around by Oklahoma, both teams that lost to LSU. It’s time to do the right thing and let Alabama sit this one out.

Champagne•6 months

Bama is IN period. Why? Because they are good for TV ratings.

DoubleDown•6 months

IF SMU Beats Clemson, then Bama has a decent to good chance to get in. IF Clemson wins, Bama is out.

ThomasShelby•6 months

South Carolina would beat 9 of the teams on this list, and I don’t even root for them.

MONROE•6 months

Bama being on this list makes this whole process a sham.

TNTigerman•6 months

You don't think Bama would beat the crap out of Arizona State, SMU, UNLV, or Indiana? That's the sham.

ThomasShelby•6 months

They would. So would most other teams from the SEC with a winning record.

cbree88•6 months

No. Also, that’s not the point though. We have no way of knowing who would actually beat who in these matchups until the game are played. Therefore, objective criteria such as wins and losses and strength of schedule are what the selection committee should be focused on 100% of the time; not subjective opinions from random slap dicks. Focus on the resume, not your subjective, biased opinion of who would beat who (which we have no way of proving).

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lsutiger2•6 months

Need to Clemson to beat SMU so they bump Bama OUT

Saunson69•6 months

That would just kick SMU out. 0 ranked wins. 75th ranked SOS. 2 unranked losses. Bama's 3 ranked wins including UGA and SC with 3 losses, 2 unranked is a better resume.

LSUgrad88•6 months

SMU’s second loss would be in a conference championship game while Bama was sitting at home. To me it’s a coin flip what the committee would do there.

cbree88•6 months

Alabama over Miami? Please stop the fricking politics and putting teams in who you think will make you the most money. The CFP committee needs to be disbanded and we need to start using the BCS formula again. The BCS formula with 12 teams would be great.

DoubleDown•6 months

Problem is the latest mock BCS standings has Bama at 11. Whoops.

DoubleDown•6 months

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cbree88•6 months

That would put them out of the playoff. The top 5 conference champions would go plus 5 at large berths as determined by BCS standings.

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Cosmo•6 months

Of course Bama will make it after getting beat down by a 6-6 team and vandy

Champagne•6 months

Yes. This season and EVERY season. There is no reasonable scenario in which Bama won't be one of the 12 every single season. None.

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