Fox News Digital Sports' college football winners and losers: Week 13

The College Football Playoff scenery was shaken up connected Saturday with 3 apical 10 teams falling to lower-ranked opponents, portion 3 much successful the apical 15 besides lost.

The SEC was the biggest league to instrumentality a hit. No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Ole Miss and No. 15 Texas A&M suffered losses to unranked teams. No. 5 Indiana, which had been penning a terrific Cinderella story, wholly folded erstwhile going up against No. 2 Ohio State.

So, the question was: Who were the teams that were fundamentally locks for the College Football Playoff? The lone reply could beryllium No. 1 Oregon. The Ducks had the play disconnected and already clinched a spot successful the Big Ten Conference Championship.

The 11 different spots appeared to beryllium up for grabs.

Which teams went location winners, and which teams went location losers? Let’s interruption it down here.

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Winners

Florida antiaircraft backmost Bryce Thornton intercepts a walk successful the extremity portion during the 2nd fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Mississippi, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Arizona State: How astir those Sun Devils? Head manager Kenny Dillingham has Arizona State sitting successful a tiebreaker for the Big 12 conference, but they power their ain destiny aft beating BYU connected Saturday successful what was a chaotic last infinitesimal of action. The biggest takeaway is that with Colorado losing, this sets up a monolithic last play successful the conference, and Arizona State is 1 triumph distant from playing for a rubric and a spot successful the College Football Playoff. 

Tennessee: Yes, the Vols bushed UTEP connected Saturday successful what was not overmuch of a shot game. But it was what happened astir them successful the SEC that present has Tennessee successful a premier spot for a playoff spot. With Ole Miss and Alabama some being upset connected Saturday, a way opened for Josh Heupel's squad to clinch a playoff berth adjacent play against Vanderbilt. Just erstwhile you thought things wouldn't spell their way, the Vols are present sitting pretty. 

Florida: Since the schoolhouse came retired and said caput manager Billy Napier is going to enactment for adjacent season, the Gators person done thing they haven’t done since 2003: They bushed a ranked hostile arsenic an unranked hostile for the 2nd consecutive game. The Gators picked disconnected Ole Miss Rebels backmost Jaxson Dart 3 times successful the win, playing spoiler and delivering a crushing stroke to the Rebels' playoff hopes.

Notre Dame: Notre Dame is doing precisely what they are expected to do, and the stink from their nonaccomplishment to Northern Illinois is gone. They went to a neutral tract against a ranked Army squad and ran them retired of the building. Who knows if they tin bent with Oregon, Ohio State and Texas, but they are rightfully wrong the apical five. Oh, and however chill was it to spot a Jeter backmost successful the Bronx?

Nebraska: Taking down Wisconsin, 44-25, yet gave Nebraska its elusive sixth triumph nether Matt Rhule. The midseason summation of violative coordinator Dana Holgorsen has transformed the Cornhuskers' offense.

Oklahoma manager Brent Venables celebrates with fans aft a assemblage shot crippled against Alabama successful Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Brent Venables: It's been a pugnacious mates of weeks for Oklahoma Sooners caput manager Brent Venables. He revealed his woman was battling crab again arsenic the play seemed to person slipped away. He yet got a triumph with a large upset implicit Alabama. The Sooners are 6-5 this season.

Losers

Colorado: Well, Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes blew their accidental astatine playing for the Big 12 championship. Sure, determination are a fewer weird scenarios that could get them in, but the nonaccomplishment to Kansas each but confirms that the Colorado tally has travel to an end. The lone bully portion astir the crippled against the Jayhawks was Travis Hunter, who looks to person solidified the Heisman Trophy, successful my opinion. 

Ole Miss: If the Rebels had won out, they would beryllium each but assured a spot successful the College Football Playoffs. With their 24-17 nonaccomplishment to Florida, present they request thing abbreviated of a occurrence to marque it. Jaxson Dart hadn’t thrown much than 1 interception successful a crippled implicit the past 2 seasons anterior to Saturday, erstwhile helium threw 3 interceptions. Two of his interceptions came successful the last 2 minutes of the game, sealing the Rebels' fate.

Rutgers: A timeout that volition unrecorded successful infamy outgo Rutgers a accidental astatine its archetypal triumph vs. a ranked hostile since 2009. The Scarlet Knights are vessel bound regardless, but it volition beryllium a elder time the programme ne'er gets back.

Rutgers caput manager Greg Schiano looks connected during the archetypal fractional against Illinois, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Piscataway, N.J. (Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images)

North Carolina: The Tar Heels were humiliated by Boston College, and adjacent a brace of precocious meaningless touchdowns didn't marque it overmuch prettier aft falling down 41-7.

The SEC: Things went sideways for the league successful a chaotic mode connected Saturday. Ole Miss losing to Florida was thought to beryllium the lone madness we'd spot this past weekend, but Alabama decided to articulation the enactment of losing a spot successful the College Football Playoff by getting drilled by Oklahoma. Then, Texas A&M was beaten by Auburn successful 4 overtimes, which has caused full-blown chaos successful the conference. Georgia clinched a spot successful the SEC championship, and the victor of Texas vs. Texas A&M volition look the Bulldogs successful Atlanta. But what happens if the Aggies triumph this weekend, past upset Georgia successful Atlanta? We tin lone imagine.

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The Fox News Digital Sports assemblage shot winners and losers were compiled by the Fox News Digital Sports unit and the OutKick.com staff.