Week 0 and Week 1 of the 2022 college football season delivered fun upsets, some tremendous scoring madness (and the exact opposite) and just general chaos. College football is officially back and nearly in midseason form already.
However, we’re still about two months away from the first College Football Playoff rankings and about three away from the playoff committee making its selections for what’s still a four-team playoff, for now.
That means the teams with the best chances to make the playoff, according to ESPN’s Playoff Predictor and FPI, include many of the regulars we’ve seen before. In fact, after everyone’s season openers, the teams with the top-4 chances to make it are the same — but they’re in a slightly different order now.
So going into Week 2, here’s a look at the top-10 teams with the best chances to make the College Football Playoff, along with their chances of advancing to the title game and winning it all, according to ESPN’s Playoff Predictor, as of Tuesday. The Playoff Predictor utilizes an algorithm that factors in the same considerations as the selection committee, such as strength of record, number of losses and conference championships (or independent status), along with the FPI.