Week 10 offers real tests for a handful of College Football Playoff contenders. Throughout Saturday’s slate, will give an updated look at the playoff seeding and matchups. Here’s everything you need to know about the current CFP race:
Update at 11:30 p.m. ET Saturday:
You just knew the ACC was ready to embrace the chaos and boy did it ever Saturday. Miami played itself out of the playoff, Georgia Tech suffered an unforgivable loss on the road to NC State and both Virginia and Louisville struggled to put away opponents on the road. As a result, the conference went from tracking for two bids to the playoff, to handing another at-large spot to the SEC.
Right now there’s a glut of two-loss teams in the conference where it just means more and for now that is going to result in Oklahoma ever so slightly getting the nod as the last team into the field—even over an undefeated team like BYU. The Cougars have only one tenuous victory over a Top 25 team while Oklahoma has several and played a nonconference schedule with a pulse. It will be quite the interesting debate for the committee on Tuesday either way.
Update at 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday:
Diego Pavia does not get to go out to Sixth Street to celebrate a win after Vanderbilt suffers its second loss of the season on the road at Texas. The Commodores had a furious fourth-quarter rally but that wasn’t enough to prevail, giving life to the Longhorns’ CFP hopes and taking the folks from Nashville out of the backet. Their loss is Notre Dame’s gain however as that allows the Irish to move up into the top 12 ahead of the selection committee’s first set of rankings on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, Miami’s struggles seem to have continued with their first trip out of the Sunshine State resulting in an overtime loss at SMU. Mario Cristobal’s team had a terrific start to the season, but they’ve now suffered two conference losses that may well cost them another trip to the CFP. Right now they slide out of the bracket and open up a spot for undefeated BYU, shifting the ACC from a multi-bid league to a single-bid conference at the same time.
Update at 11 p.m. ET Friday:
It sure seems like the American really loves to pass the Group of 5 bid baton around each week given the number of upsets we’ve seen lately. First it was South Florida, then it was Memphis and this week it was Tulane. None of those teams is out of the running yet, and North Texas also lurks in the background, but it is becoming quite the interesting race as we go into the final weekend without CFP selection committee rankings to factor in.
Live Week 10 College Football Playoff BracketOhio StateIndianaTexas A&MAlabama GeorgiaMississippiOregon Texas TechNotre DameOklahomaVirginiaSouth FloridaFirst RoundNo. 12 South Florida at No. 5 GeorgiaNo. 11 Virginia at No. 6 MississippiNo. 10 Oklahoma at No. 7 OregonNo. 9 Notre Dame at No. 8 Texas TechQuarterfinalsOrange Bowl: No. 4 Alabama vs. winner of No. 12 South Florida at No. 5 GeorgiaSugar Bowl: No. 3 Texas A&M vs. winner of No. 11 Virginia at No. 6 MississippiCotton Bowl: No. 2 Indiana vs. winner of No. 10 Oklahoma at No. 7 Oregon Rose Bowl: No. 1 Ohio State vs. winner of No. 9 Notre Dame at No. 8 Texas Tech
