As Week 9 of the college football season has come and gone, we turn the calendar to November and start to look for the teams that are going to make runs to the College Football Playoff and New Year’s Six bowl games.
This year there are plenty of teams alive for both with some interesting candidates starting to somewhat separate themselves from the rest of the field.
How many teams can realistically win a national championship this season? And who are the ones most likely to?
Who has the hardest tests the rest of the season and who has the easier tracks?
Is Notre Dame closer to being seen as a contender than we may tend to think?
ESPN releases their Football Power Index each week to handicap how teams match up. They did so following Week 9 of the college football season and here is how the top 25 teams nationally turned out.