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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Playoff bracket, bubble and Big 12 race have new main characters

And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football’s Week 12, where no one won bigger than Indiana’s Curt Cignetti. He got a $64 million contract on his week off.

1. Preseason No. 1 Georgia faced the prospect of missing the College Football Playoff entirely if it suffered its third loss of the season on Saturday against Tennessee. And it looked like that was going to happen when the Bulldogs fell behind 10-0 on their home field. But then, much-maligned quarterback Carson Beck rediscovered his mojo just in time.