One year after producing both the national champion and the runner-up, the SEC remains the conference to beat heading into the 2018 college football season.
That doesn't mean the SEC has the most qualified candidates for a spot in the College Football Playoff, though. That honor belongs to the Big Ten, which has five teams capable of winning it all this year. However, the Big Ten wasn't quite able to usurp the top spot in the conference rankings, due to a couple of teams at the bottom of the league who simply aren't good.
For each league, we put every team into one of four categories: College Football Playoff Contender, Likely Bowl Team, Potential Bowl Team or Dead Weight.