2024 Post-Week 6 12-team College Football Playoff prediction and seeding
Week 6 of the college football season had the potential to be a big weekend with some big upsets, and it delivered big time. Losing streaks were broken, comebacks were made, and chaos broke out as Week 6 of the college football season is now in the books, and in the record books.
After winning one of the most electric games in college football history, Alabama had what seemed like one of their easiest SEC game against Vanderbilt this week. Vanderbilt was a team that was 0-60 against top-5 teams in program history, the key word there is "was." The Commodores came out and shocked the Crimson Tide and honestly shocked college football fans all over the country by beating the Crimson Tide for the first time in school history, knocking off the top team in the country.
So after a chaotic week of football, here is my latest College Football Playoff prediction.
Rank | Team | Why are they here | Previous ranking |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ohio State Buckeyes | Big Ten Champion | 2 |
2 | Texas Longhorns | SEC Champion | 6 |
3 | Miami Hurricanes | ACC Champion | 3 |
4 | Kansas State Wildcats | Big 12 Champion | 4 |
5 | Georgia Bulldogs | At-large | 5 |
6 | Oregon Ducks | At-large | 8 |
7 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | At-large | N/A |
8 | Penn State Nittany Lions | At-large | 9 |
9 | Alabama Crimson Tide | At-large | 1 |
10 | Ole Miss Rebels | At-large | 10 |
11 | Tennessee Volunteers | At-large | 7 |
12 | Boise State Broncos | MW Champion | N/A |
After not seeing a lot of movement in the top four all season, we now have two straight weeks of two new No. 1 teams. This week, however, the biggest change is the fact that the No. 1 team is not from the SEC for the first time all season. The No. 1 team this week is now the Ohio State Buckeyes, who had a bit of a slow start against the Iowa Hawkeyes but turned it on in the second half to get the dominant win.
The other big change in the SEC is that now, the Texas Longhorns sit in that SEC champion spot instead of the Crimson Tide or the Bulldogs. Texas got that spot more so because they were on a bye this week and got the reap the rewards of not even having a chance to be upset in a week full of them.
Alabama and Tennessee tumbled down the rankings after their big upsets with the Volunteers losing to Arkansas. The Volunteers just didn't look like themselves in any phase of the game.
Due to other teams dropping out, like Missouri, Notre Dame makes their grand reentrance to the prediction rankings this week. Penn State and Oregon also take advantage of teams losing ahead of them and get their chance to move up. UNLV suffered its first loss of the season, knocking them out of these rankings, and Boise State moved back in as the top-ranked Group of Five team.
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