Week 8 of the college football season is officially in the books, and it was another crazy one.
Despite fewer marquee matchups than Week 7, plenty of upsets still happened, including UCF beating BYU. The Cougars came into the game undefeated and ranked No. 2 in the country before the Knights won 39-31 in double overtime.
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Ole Miss, Texas Tech, Tennessee, Iowa and USC also lost on Saturday.
With that in mind, ESPN’s Allstate Playoff Predictor updated following this last week of action, and the top three are unchanged. Miami leads the pack with a 98 percent chance to make the College Football Playoff, followed by Ohio State (91 percent) and Indiana (89 percent).
Notre Dame has the fourth-best odds to make the CFP at 82 percent, and Georgia rounds out the top five with an 80 percent chance to make the field.
Biggest rises, falls
The biggest falls were James Madison and Texas Tech. JMU’s odds fell by 38 percent, while Texas Tech’s fell by 33 percent. This followed JMU’s loss to Appalachian State and Texas Tech’s loss to Cincinnati.
The biggest rises were LSU and Texas, as both schools’ odds went up by 16 percent. LSU beat Auburn, while Texas beat Ole Miss.
The top 3 teams to make the playoff remained unchanged this week according to the Allstate Playoff Predictor.
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Biggest rises:
📈 LSU +16%
📈 Texas +16%
Biggest falls:
📉 James Madison -38%
📉 Texas Tech -33% pic.twitter.com/SCDxxiIppz
These odds can and will change as we get closer to the end of the regular season. It’s going to be a fun race to the finish.
Meanwhile, the first official CFP rankings will be release in one week, 7 p.m. ET Nov. 3 on ESPN.
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