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How Many of the Big Ten's Top Teams Will Fall From the New Year's Six Running?

The Big Ten lost all of its margin for error in Week 10, when that should reshuffle the top 12 spots in Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings. Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference’s last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks—but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won’t hold up against the other one-loss teams under consideration.

Below, the latest look at the projected (but far from official) matchups for all 39 bowl games leading up to the College Football Playoff national championship in Atlanta on Jan.