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Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 12

The SEC is still a five-bid league even with Oklahoma’s upset win over Alabama.
Pat Forde
Pat Forde

Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables celebrates with defensive lineman Gracen Halton after beating Alabama. / David Leong-Imagn Images

The big shake-up over the weekend was the home loss by Alabama to Oklahoma. While that alters a few things, it doesn’t change this from last week: The SEC is still a five-bid league.

Projected College Football Playoff Seeding After Week 12

  1. Ohio State
  2. Indiana
  3. Texas A&M
  4. Georgia
  5. Texas Tech
  6. Mississippi
  7. Oregon
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Alabama
  10. Notre Dame
  11. Miami
  12. James Madison

On the Bubble

  • Texas
  • USC
  • Michigan
  • Vanderbilt
  • BYU
  • Georgia Tech

First-Round Games

  • No. 12 James Madison at No. 5 Texas Tech
  • No. 11 Miami at No. 6 Mississippi
  • No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 7 Oregon
  • No. 9 Alabama at No. 8 Oklahoma

Quarterfinals

  • Orange Bowl: No. 4 Georgia vs. winner of No. 12 James Madison at No. 5 Texas Tech
  • Sugar Bowl: No. 3 Texas A&M vs. winner of No. 11 Miami at No. 6 Mississippi
  • Cotton Bowl: No. 2 Indiana vs. winner of No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 7 Oregon
  • Rose Bowl: No. 1 Ohio State vs. winner of No. 9 Alabama at No. 8 Oklahoma

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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 Others Receiving Votes podcast for SI and is a regular contributor to the Tony Kornheiser Show podcast. 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.