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Pat Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 2

In the early part of the season, a team won’t be ranked if it hasn’t played a power-conference opponent yet.
Pat Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 2

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Western Michigan linebacker Dillon Moore celebrates a sack against Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood in Week 1. | USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connectwould select and seed the College Football Playoff if today was Selection Sunday.

Same rules apply as last week: If a team hasn’t played a power-conference opponent yet, it’s not getting ranked. Looking at you, Big Ten, where Indiana, USC, Penn State, Nebraska and Washington have nonconference slates consisting solely of Group of 6 conference teams. No. 11 Tulsa at No. 6 Texas A&MPat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing.

He cohosts the Others Receiving Votes podcast for SI and is a regular contributor to the Tony Kornheiser Show podcast. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize.

A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.

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