Only three weeks of the 2024 college football regular season remain, and the College Football Playoff picture becomes clearer each Saturday. As expected, the Big Ten and the SEC hold a tremendous amount of power—and with it, eight of the 12 coveted spots in the projected field. However, both conferences, and the SEC in particular, stand to lose ground in the coming weeks with a collection of two-loss programs clinging on for dear life.
Georgia is the clearest example of those teams after a drubbing at the hands of Ole Miss last week and with a talented Tennessee team coming to town this weekend. But teams like Arizona State and Kansas State in the Big 12 and Pittsburgh and Clemson in the ACC also are perilously close to seeing chances at playoff bids, either expected or happily stumbled upon, evaporate from right in front of them.
