Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois. Alabama is the only two-loss team in the playoff. Did you think the 12-team College Football Playoff would really change things? The CFP committee released the initial top 25 on Tuesday night, and there were few surprises when it came to teams that made the projected playoff field.
No. 10 Notre Dame and No. 11 Alabama are the last two at-large bids.
Remember, No. 12 Boise State (Mountain West) is an automatic qualifier as the projected fifth conference champion in this format along with No. 1 Oregon (Big Ten), No.
3 Georgia (SEC), No. 4 Miami (ACC) and No. 9 BYU (Big 12).
No. 2 Ohio State is the highest at-large bid, which would give them the No. 5 seed in the bracket.
The other at-large teams are No. 5 Texas, No. 6 Penn State, No.
7 Tennessee and No. 8 Indiana. The bubble is the more interesting talking point.
Why are Alabama and Notre Dame in? Who are the four teams that could burst that bubble over the coming weeks? Sporting News looks at the bubble. MORE: Picks against the spread for Week 11's Top 25 games CFP Rankings bubble teams: Last two in No. 10 Notre Dame (7-1) Did anybody think this was possible when the Irish lost to Northern Illinois 16-14 on Sept.
7? The Irish can get an at-large bid as an independent, but they are ineligible for a first-round bye. Notre Dame has head-to-head victories over No. 14 Texas A&M and No.
22 Louisville, and the Nov. 23 matchup against No. 25 Army might carry more weight than the season finale agai.
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