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College Football Playoff Projections: Week 14 Rankings and Bowl Forecast

Though five teams ranked in the initial College Football Playoff Top 25 suffered a loss in Week 13, it wasn't a "shake things to their core" type of week for the rankings or our bowl projections.

Three of those five teams—Auburn, North Carolina and Texas—were already long shots to play in a New Year's Six bowl and lost to higher-ranked opponents. Texas perhaps should have won its home game against Iowa State, but not one of those three outcomes was surprising.

Then-No. 15 Oregon's loss to Oregon State was a shocker, but the selection committee had already indirectly proclaimed that the Pac-12 champion wasn't a legitimate threat for the CFP anyway.