When you're in the bowl-projection business, it is essential to balance two competing instincts: the instinct to project the bowl schedule as it would look now, and the instinct to project the bowl schedule as it is likely to look after the season.

There was some significant movement in the new rankings released after the Week 13 games. While the top four teams in last week's rankings —Oregon, Ohio State, Texas, and Penn State—all took care of business, other teams projected to be in the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket suffered losses.

Calling all bubble watchers, chaos cowboys and college football geniuses, it’s time to take Joe Goodman’s 6-0 Challenge for Week 13 of the college football season. We had one winner out of about 300 entries last week, so congrats to Mark Thompson for his big brain and lifetime status as a certified college football genius.

"The Bear" delivers his best bets for Week 13 of the college football season. Check out which games have caught his attention.

The final week of the college football regular season is here, which means the College Football Playoff is just around the corner. Several teams were in a comfortable position to make the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff entering Week 14,

That leaves just the conference championship games left to settle who plays where and when in the College Football Playoff and the rest of the bowl games -- and there's still plenty to be settled. Other than the 18 teams playing for their league title,

Saturday got off to a wild start with the game that had the greatest impact on this week's College Football Playoff projections as No. 2 Ohio State coughed up a chance to play for the Big Ten title and earn a bye in the CFP in an ugly 13-10 loss to Michigan.

Boise State, Colorado and Georgia were all victorious in Black Friday matchups with College Football Playoff implications. So heading into Saturday,

The regular season has come to a close. Here are the latest College Football Playoff predictions and projections after Week 14: