College Football Playoff picks after Week 7

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College Football Playoff picks after Week 7

10:31 PM ET

  • ESPN personnel

For the 2nd straight week a Huge Ten mainstay falls out of the University Football Playoff dialogue following a loss in Iowa Town.

How will Saturday’s prime games influence the College or university Football Playoff chase? What are the latest odds for the leading 4? The Allstate Playoff Predictor has the answers. Check out again each individual week as the odds are up to date adhering to that week’s games.

Most Well-known Playoff Picks

Crew (File) Votes
Ga (7-) 14/14
Cincinnati (6-) 14/14
Alabama (6-1) 12/14
Oklahoma (7-) 12/14
Michigan (6-) 2/14
Michigan Condition (7-) 1/14
Oklahoma State (6-) 1/14

Very last 7 days it was the Penn Point out Nittany Lions, this week it was the hometown Iowa Hawkeyes. Purdue knocked off the No. 2 Hawkeyes, 24-7, on the highway and it ended Iowa’s multi-7 days run in the playoff picks. The Hawkeyes nonetheless have a probability to make it to the Big 10 title recreation regardless of the decline so their playoff chances are not extinguished just nonetheless.

Going to the teams that manufactured the best four rankings, the Ga Bulldogs managed the top location on every single ballot following a at ease 30-13 victory in excess of previously unbeaten Kentucky. The Bulldogs have appeared head and shoulders higher than each of their opponents this time and the unanimous No. 1 rating reflects the dominance observed on the subject.

For the first time this season, Cincinnati lands on every ballot just after a 56-21 acquire more than UCF and the Iowa decline. On best of the unanimous selection, the Bearcats climbed as substantial as No. 2 in 12 of the 14 rankings, their maximum rank of the period.

Right after the leading two, factors get to some degree significantly less predictable. It didn’t get extensive for Alabama to climb back on to just about each and every ballot even with the 7 days 6 loss at Texas A&M. The Crimson Tide bounced back in a large way — as Nick Saban teams are wont to do — with a 49-9 rout of Mississippi State in Starkville and after yet again seem like a CFP shoo-in.

Oklahoma is 7- and would seem to have identified its quarterback. The Sooners land on 12 ballots this 7 days, the most votes they’ve gained all time.

The fourth place is where by we see the most variation with Michigan, Michigan Point out and Oklahoma State all grabbing a single No. 4 location — the Wolverines also climbed to No. 3 on 1 ballot through their bye 7 days.

You will find nonetheless loads of time this year for shakeups inside of the picks but as of correct now, the same four teams populate 11 of the 14 ballots.

Andrea Adelson: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Alabama
Kyle Bonagura: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Alabama, 4. Michigan
Bill Connelly: 1. Georgia, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Michigan Condition
Heather Dinich: 1. Georgia, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Alabama
David M. Hale: 1. Georgia, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Alabama
Chris Low: 1. Georgia, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Alabama, 4. Oklahoma
Harry Lyles Jr.: 1. Georgia, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Alabama, 4. Oklahoma
Ryan McGee: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Michigan, 4. Oklahoma Condition
Adam Rittenberg: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Alabama, 4. Oklahoma
Alex Scarborough: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Alabama, 4. Oklahoma
Mark Schlabach: 1. Georgia, 2. Alabama, 3. Cincinnati, 4. Oklahoma
Paolo Uggetti: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Alabama
Tom VanHaaren: 1. Ga, 2. Cincinnati, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Alabama
Dave Wilson: 1. Ga, 2. Oklahoma, 3. Cincinnati, 4. Alabama