CBS Sports CFB Bowl projections: BYU flexes as new Big 12 frontrunner

October 25, 2025

By Brad Crawford, CBS Sports: Before the SEC begins its nine-game conference schedule next season to match others across the Power Five, the league could be laughing all the way to the bank with a record number of College Football Playoff appearances at the end of the 2025 campaign.

No. 10 Vanderbilt’s second straight nationally ranked win on Saturday and third this season gives the Commodores the nod over several other one-loss titans in our updated Week 9 playoff projection as the SEC’s fifth potential team to get an invite. Oklahoma’s loss to Ole Miss was the Sooners’ second of the season, detrimental to the cause considering there’s still four remaining contests against top 25 teams.

After its second straight road victory as an underdog despite being the Big 12’s last remaining unbeaten, BYU debuts in this season’s playoff projection following another big outing from freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeier. In addition, South Florida has fallen off its perch atop the Group of Five after Memphis clipped the Bulls in the final moments, revealing a new favorite in the American.

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