October 15, 2024
By Ross Dellenger, Yahoo Sports: This year’s playoff will have an additional eight teams. The 12-team format, for those who have forgotten, features five automatic qualifiers for the five highest-ranked conference champions (the top four get a bye) and seven at-large spots for the next highest-ranked teams.
Halfway through the season, 11 undefeated teams remain, all or most in great position to obtain one of those 12 spots, including G5 teams like Army, Navy, Liberty and even one-loss Boise State.
But our focus isn’t on those programs.
There are plenty of one-loss, two-loss and even three-loss power conference teams that remain very much alive for a playoff bid — schools that, in a four-team playoff, would be left for dead. We picked the most legitimate 20 schools that, despite losses, are still in contention for a playoff berth.
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