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CFP rankings: Big Ten dominates; Georgia first team out

By Adam Gretz | Last updated Nov 13, 2024 8:04 AM ET

The second College Football Playoff rankings for the 2024 season were revealed on Tuesday night and featured some big changes.

The most prominent of those changes was the Georgia Bulldogs dropping from the No. 3 ranking (and No. 2 seed) all the way down to the No. 12 ranking and being the first team out of the playoff field. That is a result of their loss to Ole Miss on Saturday, which is already the Bulldogs' second loss of the season.

SMU in the No. 14 spot would be the second team out.

With Georgia dropping down the rankings, that means somebody else had to move up into a top-four seed — and a potential first-round bye — and that was the Texas Longhorns, who went from the No. 5 ranking up to No. 3 and the second overall seed in the bracket.

Miami (No. 9), BYU (No. 6) and Oregon (No. 1) all remain in the top-four seeds.

Here is what the bracket would look like right now:

The updated CFP bracket projection has arrived‼️

Did your team make the cut? pic.twitter.com/V7yjMjfND1
— ESPN (@espn) November 13, 2024

This is the overall ranking leaderboard:

The updated College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings pic.twitter.com/ymA9wlI1dB
— ESPN (@espn) November 13, 2024

BYU (Big 12), Miami (ACC) and Texas (SEC) all earn top-four seeds because they are leading the top-four power conferences and holding those automatic bids and byes.

The big takeaway from the overall rankings is the dominance of the Big 10, which has four of the top-five teams in the rankings, with Oregon (No. 1), Ohio State (No. 2), Penn State (No. 4) and Indiana (No. 5) all holding down those spots.

While Oregon gets the first-round bye in this ranking, the other three would all host first-round games, with Ohio State hosting Boise State, Penn State hosting Ole Miss and Indiana getting a hypothetical home game against Alabama.

Georgia already lost to Alabama earlier this season but has a big chance to make another big statement this week against No. 7 Tennessee. A win there would almost certainly send Georgia back into the field in next week's rankings and push Tennessee to the bubble.

Adam Gretz

Adam Gretz is a freelance writer based in Pittsburgh. He covers the NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. Baseball is his favorite sport -- he is nearly halfway through his goal of seeing a game in every MLB ballpark. Catch him on Twitter @AGretz

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