Did the Bulldogs' playoff path get tougher? We break down the possibilities and every other bowl matchup.
Week 3 didn't bring any big upsets, as the only ranked teams to lose fell to teams ranked higher than them .
But all wins are not created equal, as we saw when No. 1 Georgia narrowly avoided defeat with a 1-point win at Kentucky., the five highest-ranked conference champions will make the field along with the next seven highest-ranked teams. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be awarded first-round byes, with the other eight teams meeting at the campus sites of Seeds 5 through 8.
From there, the quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in what had been the New Year's Six bowls, with this season's national championship game scheduled for Jan. 20 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. All of that is just the tip of the iceberg, though. Apart from the playoff is the 36-game slate of bowl games, from the Cricket Celebration Bowl on Dec. 14 to the Bahamas Bowl on Jan. 4.ESPN bowl gurus Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach are projecting every postseason matchup, including their breakdowns of how the CFP will play out, every week until the actual matchups are set on Selection Day on Dec. 8.
If we're being honest, a Texas-USC game should be played at the Rose Bowl, not in New Orleans, given the history. Either way, that would be by far the most compelling matchup this round. With the first-round games on campuses, the quarterfinals might end up being the most sterile round because there figures to be some mismatches that won't be as compelling at neutral sites that far removed for the national championship game.I had the four home teams -- No. 5 Georgia, No. 6 Alabama, No.
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