Surprise team slides into automatic bye territory in latest College Football Playoff rankings

Eleven of the 12 teams from past week's College Football Playoff rankings are inactive safe.

However, a nonaccomplishment from a league person shook things up with the bracket.

In lawsuit you inactive request a refresher, 5 automatic bids volition spell to league winners, with the apical 4 seeds going to the league leaders successful bid of their CFP ranking with a bye.

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Running backmost Ashton Jeanty of the Boise State Broncos celebrates a touchdown during archetypal fractional enactment against the UCF Knights astatine Albertsons Stadium Sept. 9, 2023, successful Boise, Idaho. (Loren Orr/Getty Images)

The different 7 bids spell to at-large teams based connected their spot successful the rankings. A team's playoff seeding whitethorn not beryllium the aforesaid arsenic its committee ranking owed to the bracket system.

With that, present is the existent playoff seeding:

Automatic bids

1. Oregon — Big Ten person (11-0, 8-0)

2. Texas — SEC person (8-1, 4-1); ranked third

3. Miami — ACC person (9-1, 5-1); ranked eighth

4. Boise State — Mountain West person (9-1. 6-0); ranked 12th

12. BYU — Big 12 person (9-1, 6-1); ranked 14th

The Boise State Broncos, led by Heisman contender Ashton Jeanty's 1,893 rushing yards, are present ranked up of Big 12 person BYU (No. 14) successful the CFP polls, giving them the No. 4 seed. But due to the fact that BYU inactive leads its league contempt not being ranked successful the apical 12, it has a playoff spot.

Boise State Broncos moving backmost Ashton Jeanty slips a tackle by UCLA Bruins linebacker Darius Muasau (53) during the archetypal 4th of the Starco Brands LA Bowl astatine SoFi Stadium. (Robert Hanashiro/USA Today Sports)

At-large bids

5. Ohio State (9-1, 6-1); ranked second

6. Penn State (9-1, 6-1); ranked fourth

7. Indiana (10-0, 7-0); ranked fifth

8. Notre Dame (9-1); ranked sixth

9. Alabama (8-2, 4-2); ranked seventh

10. Ole Miss (8-2, 4-2); ranked ninth

11. Georgia (8-2, 6-2); ranked 10th

This each means that, contempt being the 11th-ranked squad successful the country, Tennessee is connected the extracurricular looking in, on with No. 13 SMU.

Colorado is ranked 16th successful the country, but it controls its ain destiny to a College Football Playoff appearance. Just astir everyone other needs a batch of help. 

A Colorado triumph implicit Kansas and a BYU nonaccomplishment to No 21 Arizona State would springiness the Buffaloes the Big 12 lead, which would enactment them successful automatic bid territory. It would beryllium up to the committee to sanction the Buffaloes a No. 4 seed, but they would inactive request to triumph the Big 12 rubric crippled to guarantee a spot.

Head manager Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes walks crossed the tract earlier a crippled against the Texas Tech Red Raiders astatine Jones AT&T Stadium Nov. 9, 2024, successful Lubbock, Texas.  (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

Oregon has been the apical effect successful each 3 playoff projections. It is the lone squad successful the state whose playoff effect matches its CFP ranking.

A Miami nonaccomplishment to Wake Forest, matched with an SMU triumph implicit Virginia, would astir surely outgo the Canes an automatic bye for the clip being, but it could besides sound them retired of the bracket entirely.

Oregon is disconnected this week, truthful it volition clasp onto the No. 1 seed, adjacent if the undefeated Hoosiers instrumentality down the Buckeyes successful Columbus.