• Early season results are already shaping the 12-team College Football Playoff projections. • Florida State is now projected to make the playoff field after a strong start to its season. • Despite an 0-2 start, Notre Dame is still considered a potential playoff team if it wins its remaining games.
The college football season is only three weeks old, but some contenders are already making their cases for the playoff and others have fallen by the wayside or are left with no margin for error.
That means there's more changes in this week's bowl projections trying to forecast how the 12-team CFP field will look in December.
Clemson's last-second loss to Georgia Tech sent the Tigers tumbling out of the playoff. The decision was then which team would replace them. There was thought of a f