It’s going to be hard to look back and not think Week 7 was the wildest and most chaotic of the season, from the early news of College Football Playoff expansion going into Saturday all the way through five of the top seven teams in the AP poll losing games for the first time ever. Despite that, there were only a handful of programs who saw their postseason hopes extinguish completely—hooray for tiebreakers!—even as a great swath of teams entered life support with their playoff chances thanks to some ill-advised losses.
With all that in mind, it’s time to examine just what the impact of all those results from the past weekend will have by entering The Eliminator—where we’re cutting teams and seeing which ones still have (an often mathematical) chance to play for the national title. Here’s where the field stands after Week 7.
