Predicting the College Football Playoff: Who's most likely to make the field?

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With the first College Football Playoff rankings announcement, we knew where teams stood going into a huge Week 10. There were seven ranked-vs.-ranked matchups along with No. 8 UCLA going on the road.

From the first top-10 matchup in the BYU-Utah Holy War to surprisingly big wins in Alabama-LSU and Oregon-Ohio State and yet another No. 1 team going down, the bracket could look much different.

Notre Dame built a big lead in the first half and Miami stormed back before the Irish survived thanks to some stout fourth-quarter defense. An AP top-two team lost for the fifth consecutive week which is tied for the longest such streak in the AP poll era (1936) with the 2007 season, which saw a top-two team lose in each of the last five weeks of the regular season.

The likely new No. 1, Georgia, thumped Ole Miss behind five scores from Gunner Stockton.

Here are our experts' picks for the CFP field:


Andrea Adelson: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Indiana 7. Wake Forest 8. Alabama 9. Tennessee 10. Texas 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State

Kyle Bonagura: 1. Utah 2. UCLA 3. Georgia 4. Indiana 5. Notre Dame 6. Miami 7. BYU 8. Alabama 9. Wake Forest 10. Tennessee 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State

Bill Connelly: 1. Utah 2. UCLA 3. Georgia 4. Notre Dame 5. Indiana 6. Miami 7. Alabama 8. Texas Tech 9. Texas 10. Tennessee 11. Wake Forest 12. Boise State

David Hale: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Indiana 7. Tennessee 8. Alabama, 9. Texas 10. Wake Forest 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State

Eli Lederman: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Tennessee 7. Indiana 8. Alabama 9. Wake Forest 10. BYU 11. Texas 12. Boise State

Max Olson: 1. Georgia 2. Notre Dame 3. Utah 4. Miami 5. Indiana 6. Alabama 7. Texas 8. UCLA 9. Texas Tech 10. Wake Forest 11. Tennessee 12. Boise State

Adam Rittenberg: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Tennessee 7. Alabama 8. Texas 9. Wake Forest 10. Indiana 11. BYU 12. Boise State

Alex Scarborough: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Indiana 6. Miami 7. Tennessee 8. Alabama 9. Texas 10. Wake Forest 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State

Mark Schlabach: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Texas 7. Tennessee 8. Alabama 9. Indiana 10. Wake Forest 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State

Jake Trotter: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Alabama 7. Indiana 8. Texas 9. Tennessee 10. Wake Forest 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State

Paolo Uggetti: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Indiana 7. Tennessee 8. Alabama 9. Texas 10. Wake Forest 11. BYU 12. Boise State

Dave Wilson: 1. Georgia 2. Utah 3. UCLA 4. Notre Dame 5. Miami 6. Tennessee 7. Indiana 8. Alabama 9. Texas 10. Wake Forest 11. Texas Tech 12. Boise State