Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 13

There are still no clear favorites for the ACC and Group of 5 bids.

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Chaos in the ACC has given Virginia a path into the Playoff. | Zachary Taft-Imagn Images

Here is the Dash College Football Playoff Bracket as of today:

Seeding:

Ohio State
Indiana
Texas A&M
Georgia
Texas Tech
Oregon
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Alabama
Notre Dame
Virginia
North Texas

On the bubble: BYU, Miami, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Texas, Utah, James Madison, Tulane, Navy.

First-round matchups, at campus sites:

No. 12 North Texas at No. 5 Texas Tech

No. 11 Virginia at No. 6 Oregon

No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 7 Mississippi

No. 9 Alabama at No. 8 Oklahoma

Quarterfinals:

Rose Bowl: Alabama-Oklahoma winner vs. Ohio State

Cotton Bowl: Notre Dame-Mississippi winner vs. Indiana

Sugar Bowl: Virginia-Oregon winner vs. Texas A&M

Orange Bowl: North Texas-Texas Tech winner vs. Georgia

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Published Nov 24, 2025 | Modified Nov 24, 2025

PAT FORDE

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the College Football Enquirer podcast and is a football analyst on the Big Ten Network. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.

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