CFP Bubble Watch: Who's in, who's out, who has work to do in each league

The SEC is eating up fractional the spots successful the latest College Football Playoff apical 12 projection -- and Texas isn't adjacent taking up 1 of them.

The Longhorns are retired pursuing their nonaccomplishment to Florida successful the Swamp. Penn State is retired pursuing an embarrassing nonaccomplishment astatine once-winless UCLA. Florida State is retired aft a 2nd loss, this clip to rival Miami.

Which means caller teams tin get in.

Below you'll find 1 squad successful the spotlight for each of the Power 4 leagues and different identified arsenic an enigma. We've besides tiered schools into 4 groups. Teams with Would beryllium in presumption are featured successful this week's apical 12 projection, a snapshot of what the enactment committee's ranking would look similar if it were released today. Teams listed arsenic On the cusp are the existent bubble teams and the archetypal ones extracurricular the bracket. A squad with Work to do is passing the oculus trial (for the astir part) and has a accidental astatine winning its conference, which means a guaranteed spot successful the playoff. And a squad that Would beryllium out is playing successful the shadows of the playoff -- for now.

The 13-member enactment committee doesn't ever hold with the Allstate Playoff Predictor, truthful the pursuing categories are based connected humanities cognition of the group's tendencies positive what each squad has done to date.

Reminder: This will change week-to-week arsenic each squad builds -- oregon busts -- its résumé.

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SEC

Spotlight: LSU. The Tigers came backmost into the speech this week, successful portion due to the fact that Penn State tumbled retired and opened a spot. They ranked No. 12 successful our projection. If the playoff were today, though, the committee's No. 12 squad would get knocked retired of the tract during the seeding process to marque country for the fifth-highest-ranked league champion. If LSU is going to genuinely legitimize itself successful the playoff race, it has to determination up into a top-10 spot, which is the safest spot to be. That's not going to beryllium easy, considering LSU has the 10th-most-difficult remaining schedule, according to ESPN Analytics. The metrics springiness LSU the 10th-best accidental successful the SEC to scope the league title crippled (4.4%). Saturday's crippled against South Carolina is captious due to the fact that the adjacent 3 opponents (No. 20 Vandy, No. 5 Texas A&M and No. 8 Alabama) are ranked, and 2 of the 3 games are connected the road. If LSU is going to beryllium a origin successful the postseason, it has to amended its moving crippled and its big-play capabilities. The tally crippled ranks 119th successful the state with 104.8 yards per game, and LSU is No. 103 successful plays implicit 20 yards (18).

The enigma: Missouri. We'll larn much astir the undefeated Tigers connected Saturday erstwhile they big Alabama, but arsenic of close now, their champion wins are against Kansas and South Carolina. They've got the No. 3 moving crippled successful the state (292 yards per game), and pb the state successful third-down conversion percent (61.6%). Defensively, they're fundamentally sound, starring the state with lone 20 missed tackles. Ca...