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Pat Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 7

BYU takes over the top seed after beating Notre Dame at home, while Kentucky and Texas Tech enter the fray.
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BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier and the Cougars are this week’s top seed in The Dash CFP bracket after beating Notre Dame.
BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier and the Cougars are this week’s top seed in The Dash CFP bracket after beating Notre Dame. | IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

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BYU CougarsMiami (FL) HurricanesOhio State BuckeyesUCLA BruinsGeorgia BulldogsNotre Dame Fighting IrishIndiana HoosiersOle Miss RebelsKentucky WildcatsTennessee VolunteersTexas Tech Red RaidersBoise State Broncos

Each week, The Dash selects and seeds the 12 teams who belong in the College Football Playoff as if today were Selection Sunday. 

College Football Playoff Projections After Week 7

The Field 

  1. BYU (6–0)
  2. Miami (6–0)
  3. Ohio State (6–1) 
  4. UCLA (6–0)
  5. Georgia (6–1) 
  6. Notre Dame (6–1)
  7. Indiana (6–1) 
  8. Mississippi (5–1) 
  9. Kentucky (6–1) 
  10. Tennessee (6–1)
  11. Texas Tech (6–0)
  12. Boise State (5–1)

Also considered: Wake Forest, Utah, Iowa, Northwestern, Houston, SMU, LSU, USC, Alabama, Texas, Florida, James Madison, Oregon State.

First Round 

  • No. 12 Boise State at No. 5 Georgia
  • No. 11 Texas Tech at No. 6 Notre Dame
  • No. 10 Tennessee at No. 7 Indiana
  • No. 9 Kentucky at No. 8 Mississippi 

Quarterfinals 

  • Cotton Bowl: No. 4 UCLA vs. winner of No. 12 Boise State at No. 5 Georgia
  • Rose Bowl: No. 3 Ohio State vs. winner of No. 11 Texas Tech at No. 6 Notre Dame
  • Peach Bowl: No. 2 Miami vs. winner of No. 10 Tennessee at No. 7 Indiana
  • Fiesta Bowl: No. 1 BYU vs. winner of No. 9 Kentucky at No. 8 Mississippi

Four teams have been ranked No. 1: Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, Miami

Teams ranked No. 2: Oregon, Georgia, Notre Dame, Ohio State

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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.

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