The College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game on December 19, followed by three more on December 20. The Friday night game will start at 8 p.m.

Week 7 shook up the College Football Playoff picture. No team earned a more impactful result than Indiana, whose win at Oregon is now the best in the country during the first half of the season. Indiana's playoff chances jumped 21%, climbing to a 93% ...

Michigan entered Los Angeles as the No. 15 team in the country and a team that thought it could contend for not only a Big Ten title, but a spot in the College Football Playoff. However, the Wolverines left the 31-13 loss to the Trojans with more questions ...

The Buckeyes also nudged into a tier of their own to win the College Football Playoff at +240 with the Hoosiers the next choice at +475. All of the movement sure looks justified when looking a little closer at the run Ohio State has put together.

Three top-10 teams in the CBS Sports Power Rankings lost in Week 10 -- all on the road, by the way -- to lower-ranked or unranked teams. Incredibly, lower-ranked teams in the AP poll are 18-13 against higher-ranked teams this season,