The college football season is teetering between order and chaos. On one hand, we basically have three teams guaranteed a playoff bid at this point (Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M) and another few that simply need to win games in which they're heavily favored to wrap things up (Texas Tech, Georgia, Ole Miss, Notre Dame, maybe Alabama). That doesn't leave many open spots.
On the other hand, those open spots have tons of semi-realistic contenders -- at least 22 teams still have a puncher's chance -- and the ACC and American conference races could still be blown open again.