Latest matchups for every postseason game, from Celebration Bowl to national title

The biggest results from Week 7 were Indiana's awesome roadworthy triumph astatine Oregon and Texas' dependable triumph implicit Oklahoma astatine the Cotton Bowl, but determination were different games that impacted the postseason picture.

Texas A&M continued its beardown commencement by routing Florida, Texas Tech wiped retired Kansas to support its clasp connected the Big 12, Georgia Tech remained unbeaten and SEC contenders Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU and Georgia each came distant with wins.

As with past season's inaugural 12-team CFP, the 5 highest-ranked league champions, positive the adjacent 7 highest-ranked teams, volition marque the field. Unlike past year, the 4 highest-ranked teams (not needfully league champions) volition beryllium awarded first-round byes. The different 8 teams volition conscionable successful first-round games astatine the field sites of seeds Nos. 5 done 8.

From there, the quarterfinals and semifinals volition beryllium played successful what had been the New Year's Six bowls, with this season's nationalist title crippled scheduled for Jan. 19 astatine Miami's Hard Rock Stadium.

All of that is conscionable the extremity of the iceberg, though. Apart from the playoff is the 35-game slate of vessel games, opening with the Cricket Celebration Bowl connected Dec. 13.

We're present for each of it.

ESPN vessel gurus Kyle Bonagura and Mark Schlabach are projecting each postseason matchup, including their breakdowns of however the playoff volition play out, and we'll beryllium backmost each week of the play until the existent matchups are set.

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College Football Playoff

First-round games (at field sites)

Friday, Dec. 19/Saturday, Dec. 20

Times and networks TBD.

Bonagura: No. 12 Memphis astatine No. 5 Texas Tech
Schlabach: No. 12 South Florida astatine No. 5 Ole Miss

Bonagura: No. 11 LSU astatine No. 6 Ole Miss
Schlabach: No. 11 LSU astatine No. 6 Texas Tech

Bonagura: No. 10 Georgia astatine No. 7 Alabama
Schlabach: No. 10 Georgia Tech astatine No. 7 Alabama

Bonagura: No. 9 Georgia Tech astatine No. 8 Oregon
Schlabach: No. 9 Oregon astatine No. 8 Georgia

First-round breakdown

Bonagura: These things person a mode of being settled with time, but determination is simply a beardown lawsuit for the SEC to nonstop 5 teams to the playoff, and who those 5 teams should beryllium is inactive up for debate.

For now, I settled connected Texas A&M (bye), Ole Miss, Alabama, Georgia and LSU, but determination are 9 teams successful the league with zero oregon 1 loss, positive two-loss teams successful Texas and Mississippi State. What this means is determination volition apt beryllium immoderate SEC vs. SEC first-round games. In this case, they are 10. Georgia astatine No. 7 Alabama and No. 11 LSU astatine No. 6 Ole Miss.

Georgia Tech is simply a caller inclusion connected my playoff pairings this week with the Yellow Jackets 6-0 astatine the midway constituent of the season.

Schlabach: I've got 2 caller teams successful my apical 4 aft Indiana's stunning 30-20 upset of Oregon connected the road. The Hoosiers are a morganatic CFP rubric contender, careless of their nonconference schedule, and manager Curt Cignetti is going to beryllium 1 of the hottest commodities successful the coaching marketplace this offseason.

I besides moved Texas A&M up 1 spot aft its 34-17 triumph against Florida astatine home. Ole Miss ...