2024 Week 2 College Football Playoff rankings prediction
Week two of the college football season is in the books and already some contenders have turned into pretenders.
Compared to our week one prediction, there are two teams we dropped among the 12 teams left standing are going to come December, and we did shuffle the order around a bit compared to what we predicted last week.
College Football Playoff Prediction
Keep in mind that the top four seeds go to conference champions and a bye in the first round. The five highest ranked conference champions as a whole get automatic bids and seven at large bids make up the rest of the field.
Seed | Team | How They Got Here |
|---|---|---|
1 | Georgia | SEC Champion |
2 | Ohio State | Big 10 Champion |
3 | Miami | ACC Champion |
4 | Utah | Big 12 Champion |
5 | Texas | At Large |
6 | Alabama | At Large |
7 | Tennessee | At Large |
8 | Ole Miss | At Large |
9 | Oregon | At Large |
10 | USC | At Large |
11 | Penn State | At Large |
12 | USF | AAC Champion |
Notre Dame and Michigan are the two big losers from Week Two. The Fighting Irish lost to Northern Illinois to drop them out of our top 12. If Notre Dame runs the table from here, they probably still get in at 11-1, but given their schedule I don't think they make it in at 10-2. Michigan meanwhile looked non competitve against Texas. The loss by itself isn't the issue, it's trying to find hope down the road for them to also compete against USC, Oregon, and Ohio State.
Tennessee and USC are the two new teams we have added to the list. The Volunteers in particular look like they could be a real problem in 2024 after smacking NC State on Saturday.
Oregon is 2-0 but have looked shaky and were pushed to the limit by Boise State. Alabama was also pushed to the limit by USF. We still have USF as our dark horse to make the playoff as the top Group of Five team, though Memphis will have something to say about that in October.
Missouri fans are probably wondering why they are left off the list, especially after Penn State looked awful against Bowling Green. I think when push comes to shove, it is hard to imagine six SEC teams getting in and just three Big 10 teams, and the problem for Missouri is that their schedule is so bad the committee might just punish them out of the top 12.
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