The College Football Playoff bracket is almost set. How safe is your favorite team?

Will Alabama get in over other SEC foes? Which teams will play spoilers this weekend?

The 12-team bracket for the College Football Playoff is almost set. 

With the regular season over, all that remains between the reveal of the final bracket Sunday are this weekend’s slate of conference championship games. They will afford the 13-person committee that ranks and seeds the playoff bracket a precious few more “data points” on which to evaluate who gets in, and who gets left out.

The lack of such “data points,” as described by Warde Manuel, the Michigan athletic director who chairs the playoff’s selection committee, could be why movement between the penultimate rankings released Tuesday and the final bracket Sunday could be minimal. Manuel, while explaining the committee’s rationale Tuesday, told ESPN that “any team that is not playing right now, we don’t have a data point to rearrange where we have those teams ranked, and so that is set in terms of how we see them going into the final week of championship week.”

“Those teams who are not playing cannot be adjusted in terms of where they are compared to other teams that are not playing, but the championship [game] teams we will evaluate that data point to determine if there needs to be any movement, based on how the performance of the game goes.”

That doesn’t mean the championship weekend won’t re-arrange the standings somewhat. Beware the bid thief — a team on the bubble that upsets a team currently projected to be in, which could see that conference earning one extra bid than expected, and taking away another conference’s berth in the process. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/college-football/college-football-playoff-bubble-teams-rcna182935

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