Have you made some proper halftime adjustments? Are you ready to roll? We commemorated the first half of college football's regular season earlier this week, and now it's time to go out for the second half!
To start, let's talk about the national title race. There are 13 primary title contenders at this point: nine unbeaten power-conference teams, plus four one-loss programs with at least a 1% chance at the ring, per the Football Power Index (FPI). Let's walk through the primary weaknesses each team has to overcome -- the "ifs" it takes to make each team a lead contender for the College Football Playoff -- to see what it tells us about how the race could play out.