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What Must Happen for Each Remaining Contender to Make the CFB Playoff

Maybe.

The final days of the college football regular season—conference championship weekend and Selection Sunday—will cut the list of national title contenders in half, down to the second-ever final four for the College Football Playoff.

Some more chaotic scenarios were ruled out in the last few weeks, but there's still some time for upsets and upheaval among the top teams in the country. A couple of those will sit as outsiders in the playoff chase, including the one that conquered the first playoff last season.

What is each team rooting for this weekend in the race to find out who's in and who's out?