We're less than a week away from the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season.
A lot will change over the final month of the 2021 season, but we'll at least have an idea of what the committee is thinking on Nov. 2, when the first set of rankings comes out. Right now, we're just guessing. But we think we have a pretty good idea.
Here are our post-Week 8 bowl projections with only one change among the teams in the New Year's Six bowl games. Oregon is now the clear favorite to make the Rose Bowl in the Pac-12 after beating UCLA in Week 7.