When you're in the bowl-projection business, it is essential to balance two competing instincts: the instinct to project the bowl schedule as it would look now, and the instinct to project the bowl schedule as it is likely to look after the season.

Who will play in the 12-team College Football Playoff? Here's a look at predictions based on the latest US LBM Coaches Poll following Week 13 games.

SportsLine's model has simulated every game 10,000 times and locked in its Week 13 college football score predictions

From the live look-ins at committee members around a table each week to televised statements from the various chairmen, it seems clear that the College Football Playoff selection committees of the past 11 seasons have operated in a meeting room that has always lacked both an open bar and a contracted certified bourbon steward.

There are significant results every college football weekend. It's important to keep calm after. Here are our five overreactions from Week 13.

Ohio State and Miami both tumbled down the Associated Press Top 25 poll following a wild Week 14 in college football. The Buckeyes dropped from second

Coming out of a bitter Rivalry Week full of upsets and prove-it moments to help separate the contenders from the pretenders, let’s get a check-up on the Top 25

Calling all bubble watchers, chaos cowboys and college football geniuses, it’s time to take Joe Goodman’s 6-0 Challenge for Week 13 of the college football season. We had one winner out of about 300 entries last week, so congrats to Mark Thompson for his big brain and lifetime status as a certified college football genius.

The Big 12 scenarios are particularly chaotic, but here is what’s at stake during the final weekend of college football’s regular season.

The loss by the Crimson Tide at Oklahoma also raised some serious questions about the Kalen DeBoer and the challenges of following a coaching great like Nick Saban. Clemson, meanwhile, got a boost in their hopes by slotting ahead of those two SEC schools.