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Ranking 6 College Football Playoff scenarios by chaos potential

Which College Football Playoff scenario would be a nightmare for the selection committee?

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Dec. 1 and has since been updated.

College football’s conference championship weekend is here, so we’re just days away from the College Football Playoff selection committee announcing which four teams will compete for a national title in the final year of this format.

The four-team playoff format has delivered a decade of heated debates over the value of things like the eye test versus head-to-head matchups and whether it’s really the four best teams or the four most deserving teams. And the hypothetical scenarios and speculation are abundant until (and often after) the committee makes its decision.

It’s chaos sometimes, and we here at For The Win love and root for chaos.

This season’s playoff race certainly has been an interesting one, and headed into conference championship weekend, there are still eight teams with varying degrees of reasonable paths to the playoff. So since this is the final four-team College Football Playoff, we’re taking a look at some of the biggest chaos scenarios that could create a nightmare for the selection committee and leave fans enraged regardless.

RELATED: The path to the College Football Playoff for each of the top-8 teams in contention

Verne Lundquist’s surprise return for the final SEC on CBS game had college fans in their feelings

It’s only right to have Uncle Verne on the final SEC on CBS broadcast

Think back on your favorite SEC on CBS moment and there’s a better chance than not you’re hearing the voice of legendary play-by-play man Verne Lundquist call the action.

“Uncle Verne” became synonymous with SEC Saturdays and you always knew it was a big game whenever he was welcoming you into a broadcast.

Lundquist officially retired from calling college football and basketball games in 2016, but this Saturday marked the final SEC on CBS game before the deal between the conference and network expires. Soon it’ll be the Big Ten on CBS and the big SEC games will be shown elsewhere.

So before No. 1 Georgia and No. 8 Alabama kicked off in the SEC championship game, CBS gave everyone the one thing it wanted: one last moment with Verne on an SEC broadcast.

During a pregame video, the 83-year-old Lundquist got college fans everywhere ready to settle in for some big time action.

This had college fans everywhere in their feelings.

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How to buy Alabama tickets for SEC Football Championship Game

Want to watch Alabama battle Georgia for the SEC Football Championship game in person? Select tickets are still available.

For the second time in three years, the Alabama Crimson Tide will take on the top team in the country for the SEC Championship.

No. 8 Alabama, winners of the SEC West, will take on No. 1 Georgia, winners of the SEC East, at 4 p.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 2nd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

There are still tickets available for the game, including a few field level options. As of publication, the cheapest available price per ticket was $318.

Want to see Alabama go for its seventh SEC championship in the past ten years in person? Check out Vivid Seats to find the perfect Alabama ticket for you and anybody else you want sitting beside you as the Tide look to make history.

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The 8 biggest college football rivalries, ranked

A definitive ranking of the biggest rivalries in college football.

College football is filled with chaos and weirdness, and so much of that is because of the heated rivalries that often run generations deep. So we’re here to rank some of the biggest in the sport.

With so many to choose from and everyone having their own biases and preferences for what makes a good rivalry, this is an extremely difficult task. So, I took an unbiased approach and went to the internet to find a few existing lists to use in the creation of a composite ranking.

Below is a list of the only eight rivalries to make each list I found and their average ranking on those lists. It should give you a good idea of which rivalries are popularly considered the biggest, even if it’s not the most comprehensive.

College Football Playoff watch: With 5 undefeated top teams, who has the best playoff chances in Week 13?

This College Football Playoff race is a tight one.

Conference championship weekend is still more than a week away, but college football’s Week 13 games still have plenty of College Football Playoff implications with two of the top teams facing off and pretty much everyone else in a must-win situation. If they want to keep their playoff hopes alive, that is.

The latest playoff rankings dropped Tuesday, and while the top-3 teams remained the same as Week 12, Washington moved into the No. 4 spot as Florida State dropped to No. 5.

But the playoff rankings are notably different from each team’s playoff chance per ESPN’s Playoff Predictor algorithm, which still has Florida State with the fourth-best shot at the playoff.

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 Football Power Index.

Here’s a look at the top 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 Wednesday.

2023 Heisman Trophy Odds Tracker Week 12: Bo Nix is the favorite, Jalen Milroe is the dark horse

Bo Nix may be the new Heisman Trophy favorite but he’s not in the clear yet

Each week this college football season, BetFTW will take a look at the 2023 Heisman Trophy race and break down the contenders. Check back every Tuesday as the best college football players in the country jockey for position with both oddsmakers and bettors. All odds via BetMGM. Past weeks here: Preseason, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11.

Anyone who could’ve guessed that Bo Nix would end up the Heisman Trophy favorite late in the 2023 season while Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe mounts a spoiler campaign deserves their own award.

The whole situation would be quite comical if it weren’t so exciting, really.

For years while he was at Auburn, and even early in his Oregon days, Nix assumed the dark horse moniker to a meme-worthy extent while Alabama’s Bryce Young and DeVonta Smith ran away with the trophy. So now that Nix is mounting the best season of his career while becoming the odds-on favorite to win the Heisman in 2024, guess who all the sudden has a pretty straightforward path to a seat in New York?

Yep. Milroe.

Some narratives write themselves.

Let’s dig into it while we count down the top 10 favorites to capture the Heisman heading into Week 12.

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College GameDay: See Lee Corso’s headgear pick for No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 9 Ole Miss

Corso didn’t have to do Uga like that

While most of the college football world was busy focusing on the madness with Michigan at Penn State on Saturday, there were plenty of other intriguing storylines across the sport.

Florida State-Miami, Washington-Utah and Missouri-Tennessee are some of the big games in Week 11. And of course there’s Ole Miss at Georgia.

That’s where ESPN’s College GameDay found itself on a rainy Saturday morning and where Lee Corso came face to face with Uga XI.

Yet no matter how much Corso insulted the sweet puppy’s looks, the coach couldn’t help but fall in love with the Bulldogs against Mississippi in the SEC clash.

We don’t care what Corso says, that’s a good boy right there.

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Top-5 most watchable college football games of Week 11

We’ve compiled our list of the top-5 most watchable games of Week 11, along with where you can watch them.

The College Football Playoff race is becoming clearer as we enter the final weeks of the regular season, and it’s becoming increasingly likely that we could find ourselves in a situation with more undefeated or one-loss conference champions than there are playoff spots. That means that the remaining contenders have no margin of error from here on out. Every loss could be a knockout blow to a team’s playoff, hopes and that means high-pressure situations week in and week out.

To help you get a handle on which games will have the biggest impact on this dramatic playoff race, as well as which games are worth your time even if they have no impact on the playoffs, we’ve compiled our list of the top-5 most watchable games of Week 11, along with where you can watch them.

College Football Playoff watch: Is an SEC-less top 4 really a possibility?

A College Football Playoff without an SEC team would be unprecedented, but there’s a potential path for it to happen.

Anything is possible in college football, and everyone from diehard fans to casuals knows that. So yes, a College Football Playoff without the SEC being represented is possible, but exactly how likely is it?

Well, after Week 7’s games, the four teams with the best chances to make the College Football Playoff do not include an SEC representative. Like last week, Oklahoma still has the strongest chance to make the playoff, according to ESPN’s Playoff Predictor algorithm.

Going into Week 8, the Sooners have a 70.1 percent chance to make the playoff, which is just a one percent dip from last week, followed by Ohio State, Florida State and Washington with the latter two being new to the top four on this list. The first SEC team, Georgia, dropped from the third-best chance to seventh-best since last week.

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 Football Power Index.

Here’s a look at the top 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, per ESPN’s Playoff Predictor, as of Wednesday.

Alabama’s 2023 schedule ranks among top 25 most difficult

All seven SEC West teams ranked in the Top 25 hardest CFB schedules

Competing in the SEC is a daunting task every single year, especially with some of the high-level coaches in the conference. Whether it be Brian Kelly, Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, or Jimbo Fisher, no week is a guaranteed victory. The conference has ascended to new heights since the inception of the College Football Playoffs, with six of the nine championships belonging to the SEC.

The Georgia Bulldogs have gone back-to-back and are one title away from officially being a dynasty, but the Crimson Tide are still the big dogs in the yard. In the 2022 national championship game, it appeared as if the Tide were set to win their seventh ring under legendary head coach Nick Saban. Unfortunately, John Metchie missed the game due to an injury and Jameson Williams tore his ACL on a non-contact play in the first half, essentially depleting the Tide receiving unit and leading the Bulldogs to their first ring since 1980.

For the Alabama faithful, it is imperative that the Tide get back to the top of the mountain in 2023 despite some major changes in the program including both coordinators. The Tide missed out on the playoffs last season, and the road to get back to them isn’t much easier this season with On3 ranking Alabama’s schedule as the 18th toughest in the country. In fact, all seven teams from the SEC West and 12 of the 14 in the conference make the list. The only two who don’t are Georgia and Vanderbilt.

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