Jeff Swinger-USA TODAY Sports
The top 10 of the College Football Playoff committee’s new rankings turned out mostly as we expected. (We severely underestimated how far Alabama would fall.) The four projected playoff teams remain the same as last week and the main potential scenarios we’ve laid out previously still hold.
Keeping that in mind, we thought it’d be helpful to lay out the case for each of the eight teams left in the playoff chase. What does a win, or loss, on Championship Weekend do to each remaining contender’s chances of finishing in the top four?