College Football Playoff Ranking Projections: Top 25 for Week 12
By Zach Bigalke
Two of the top three teams in the College Football Playoff race fell on Saturday. How will the upsets impact the Top 25 when it comes out again on Tuesday?
We nearly saw all of the top three teams in the College Football Playoff lose on Saturday. It would have been the first time since 1966 that the top three teams in a major poll all fell on the same weekend. In the end, No. 1 Georgia and No. 3 Notre Dame both fell, but No. 16 Mississippi State couldn’t hold on for the upset of No. 2 Alabama in the prime-time SEC showdown.
The loss by the Bulldogs means there will be a new No. 1 team in the country after the College Football Playoff selection committee deliberates before Tuesday. Only four undefeated teams remain after Week 11 play is in the books, and it will make for an interesting reshuffling in the rankings ahead of Week 12 play in this season to rival the chaos of 2007.
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Only a few weeks remain before conference championship games, and time is waning for teams to consolidate their position. But as the country saw this weekend, one slip-up is enough for a team to lose its place in the Top 25. We saw it happen with several teams this weekend, as both Iowa schools each suffered their fourth losses of the 2017 campaign and Virginia Tech fell definitively out of ACC Coastal contention.
Who will be in and who will be out as we approach the penultimate weekend of November? Keep reading for the newest edition of the weekly College Football Playoff Top 25 projections ahead of the Tuesday release by the selection committee.