No. 1 Oregon led the third College Football Playoff Rankings of the 2024 season and is in the driver's seat for the national championship after becoming the first power conference team to clinch a slot in their conference championship game. No. 3 Texas and No. 8 Miami continued as the projected 2- and 3-seeds, while No. 12 Boise State jumped into the first-round bye group after BYU fell after a loss.
No. 14 BYU is still projected to make the field but falls to the 12-seed as the fifth conference champion to receive an at-large bid. The Cougars fell eight spots in the rankings after losing their first game of the season, a 17-13 loss against a surging Kansas team. Boise State remains by far the highest-ranked Group of Five team with undefeated Army sitting down at No. 19.
Outside of the top, Georgia moved back into the field and replaced Tennessee in the projected 12-team field as the Volunteers sit as the first team out. The Bulldogs beat the Volunteers 31-17 last week. Otherwise, the rest of the bracket remains largely unchanged from the previous week.
This bracket is a projection heading into Week 13. None of the byes will formally be earned until a team wins a conference championship. Here is a look at how the College Football Playoff bracket looks after the third CFP Rankings release.
CBS Sports will update this story shortly with takeaways from this week's projected College Football Playoff bracket release.
