Preview the 2025 College Football Playoff with the second week of CFP rankings, projected 12-team bracket, and key dates as the road to the national championship heats up.

If the season ended this week, the Sooners would be the first team omitted from the playoff. OU's two losses are to No. 7 Mississippi at home and No. 10 Texas at a neutral site. Its best wins are over No. 18 Michigan at home and No. 23 Tennessee on the road.

Will a three-loss SEC team make the CFP? Is Lane Kiffin going to be a distraction for Ole Miss down the stretch? Brian Kelly is suing LSU. A full Week 12 preview.

Can Iowa pull of a home upset vs Oregon? Can Penn State keep it close at home vs Indiana? We discuss those games and more in this week’s Pick’em Podcast:

As December approaches, bowl executives have one eye on their upcoming matchups and another on the years ahead.

Pittsburgh has flown under the radar all season even though it has landed inside the top 25 of each of the first two College Football Playoff rankings. The Panthers have quietly won five games in a row to emerge as a real contender for the ACC Championship Game and beyond.

Notre Dame (7-2) has no such wiggle room. A seven-game winning streak by an average of nearly four touchdowns has put the Irish back in the College Football Playoff mix, though another misstep likely leaves them on the outside looking in when the 12-team field is released.

Joel Klatt broke down which teams in the CFP top 25 control their own destiny the rest of the season. He explained how if these teams win out the rest of the year, they can control their own destiny to make the CFP at the end of the season.

The top four teams of last week's US LBM Coaches Poll and CFP top 25 — No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Indiana, No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 4 Alabama — won their Week 11 contests, setting up potential championship games between the Buckeyes and Hoosiers in the Big Ten and Aggies and Crimson Tide in the Southeastern Conference.