• Four top-10 teams were defeated in Week 8, significantly altering the College Football Playoff forecast. • Texas Tech and Mississippi dropped out of the projected 12-team field after their losses. • Oklahoma and Brigham Young are now forecasted to make the playoff.

Evaluating the College Football Playoff picture is a bit like trying to navigate quicksand. The harder you try to make sense of it, the worse it gets. Such were the results of Week 8 when we saw four teams in the top 10 fall and major changes to which contenders are forecasted to make the 12-team field .

Three of the aforementioned quartet that lost were in the playoff last week. All of them saw their positions diminished with Texas Tech and Mississippi dropping out and Miami losing its first-round bye that seemed like w

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