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Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 10

Vanderbilt and Miami drop out after big losses ahead of the CFP committee’s first rankings reveal.
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Texas’s win over Vanderbilt has shaken things up in the playoff rankings.
Texas’s win over Vanderbilt has shaken things up in the playoff rankings. | Scott Wachter-Imagn Images

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The CFP selection committee unveils its rankings Tuesday night, beginning the monthlong silly season leading up to the only one that matters—the final rankings on Dec. 7. As of today, this is how The Dash sees it—with two Big Ten teams far ahead of the rest of the pack.

(Of note: BYU and Texas Tech will clear things up between them Saturday in Lubbock.)

College Football Playoff projection after Week 10

  1. Ohio State
  2. Indiana
  3. Texas A&M
  4. Alabama
  5. Georgia
  6. Mississippi 
  7. Oregon
  8. BYU
  9. Texas Tech
  10. Virginia
  11. Louisville
  12. Memphis 

On the Bubble

  • Oklahoma
  • Notre Dame
  • Iowa
  • Georgia Tech
  • Miami
  • Texas
  • Vanderbilt
  • USC
  • Michigan
  • Missouri
  • Pittsburgh

First Round

  • No. 12 Memphis at No. 5 Georgia
  • No. 11 Louisville at No. 6 Mississippi
  • No. 10 Virginia at No. 7 Oregon
  • No. 9 Texas Tech at No. 8 BYU

Quarterfinals

  • Cotton Bowl: No. 4 Alabama vs. winner of No. 12 Memphis at No. 5 Georgia
  • Sugar Bowl: No. 3 Texas A&M vs. winner of No. 11 Louisville at No. 6 Mississippi
  • Orange Bowl: No. 2 Indiana vs. winner of No. 10 Virginia at No. 7 Oregon
  • Rose Bowl: No. 1 Ohio State vs. winner of No. 9 Texas Tech at No. 8 BYU

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Pat Forde
PAT FORDE

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the College Football Enquirer podcast and is a football analyst on the Big Ten Network. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.

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