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College Football Playoff Bracket Week 13 Live Projections: Which Seeds Are Up for Grabs?

The Big Ten title game could be decided in Week 13, and there are meaningful games up and down the college football schedule. Throughout Saturday’s slate, Sports Illustrated will give an updated look at the playoff seeding and matchups.

Welcome to the penultimate weekend of the regular season, which is more or less the equivalent of moving day in a golf tournament given the positioning teams are trying to do for one final push into the College Football Playoff bracket. 

With a light slate in the SEC during Week 13 and a lack of impact midweek results, this is a massive opportunity for several programs to potentially jockey for at-large consideration with big wins or, perhaps, to lock up a first-round game at home for a few others. 

College Football Playoff contenders nightmare scenarios ahead of Week 13

Miami, Alabama and Mississippi were inside the top nine of the College Football Playoff rankings at this point a year ago with each seemingly locked into the tournament after a clean finish to the regular season.

You remember what happened next. The Hurricanes coughed up a 21-point lead and lost to Syracuse. The Crimson Tide were walloped by Oklahoma. The Rebels lost by a touchdown at Florida.

While this year’s bracket is set should favorites take care of business these next two weeks — resulting in a field of five SEC teams, three Big Ten teams, two teams from one of the ACC or Big 12 and one representative from the Group of Five — there are doomsday situations for each major contender that would shake up the final seedings or eject teams from the tournament entirely.

College Football Playoff bracket busters: How SEC trio of Auburn, LSU, Missouri could wreak havoc on committee

This season's College Football Playoff bracket is coming into focus following Tuesday night's third CFP Rankings reveal from the selection committee. However, for the half-dozen teams still jockeying for position on the bubble in at-large contention, there are three SEC games with heightened meaning over the final two weeks of the regular season.

Auburn (4-6), Missouri (7-3) and LSU (6-4) are the harbingers of playoff chaos the rest of the month as teams outside of the top 12 who could torch the resumes built by the likes of Alabama and Oklahoma.

This is exactly where Sooners coach Brent Venables wanted to be coming out of an October loss to Ole Miss that threatened playoff hopes for Oklahoma (8-2). The Sooners' immediate response was consecutive ranked SEC road wins, putting them back in control of their playoff destiny with two games to play.

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