College Football Playoff bracket: What Week 4’s rankings could look like as SEC, Big Ten fill up the field

There’s a new No. 1 in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings projection after Georgia’s smash-mouth win at Kentucky removed some of the shine from the Bulldogs. Texas pulled ahead in the Associated Press Top 25 rankings after Arch Manning made a statement that the Longhorns are impervious to a Quinn Ewers injury. 

Steve Sarkisian’s squad is one of six SEC teams currently headlining the top 10, while Notre Dame’s 66-point explosion at Purdue strengthened unbeaten NIU’s win over the Fighting Irish earlier this month. The Huskies have leaped Texas State as the projected Group of Five representative at the No. 12 spot, with Texas, Ohio State (Big Ten), Miami (ACC) and Kansas State (Big 12) representing the other automatic entries.

If the season ended today, the CFP selection committee would lean toward the SEC and Big Ten for their seven at-large selections. Strength of schedule trumps all, there. Unless Clemson wins out or any of the six remaining ACC unbeatens not named Miami continue winning, that’s likely going to be a one-bid league. The same goes for the Big 12, which is rooting against Notre Dame (2-1) in hopes of getting multiple playoff entries.

Projected CFP Rankings

1. Texas 

SEC champion

The injury to Quinn Ewers is not moving the Longhorns off the top spot, not after what transpired when he left Saturday’s blowout win over UTSA. Second-teamer Arch Manning accounted for five touchdowns, including a 67-yard gallop that was the longest scoring run by a freshman quarterback at Texas since Vince Young’s…

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Author : Brad Crawford

Publish date : 2024-09-17 04:01:00

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