All the games are complete and it’s time to determine which teams will be the four to make the College Football Playoff. After USC and TCU lost in their respective conference championship games, the prevailing thought from the national media is the teams that will get an invite to play for trophies and confetti will most likely be Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State.
However, instead of asking media members that can’t seem to figure out that no team is clearly better than the other, or that teams are only as good as the last game they watch, why not check with some of the analytics? We’ve checked in with two models this year — FiveThirtyEight’s and ESPN’s, and it’s time to kick the tires one more time before the field is revealed on ESPN Sunday at noon.
Here is what those two College Football Playoff predictions say about which four teams will be in.