Updating College Football Playoff and bowl game projections as rivalry week brought the regular season to a close

Will Texas make the College Football Playoff? Here's a look at this week's results and how they impacted the Longhorns.

After a wild weekend of rivalry games, the picture is getting more chaotic for the College Football Playoff rankings.

Texas moved up two spots in the Associated Press <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Top 25 poll after handing Texas A&M its first loss of the 2025 college football season.

Thirteen of the top 14 teams in the College Football Playoff rankings won, and the one that didn't (Texas A&M) was already guaranteed a CFP spot. Chalk has reigned over the past couple of weeks, but as with pizza among other things,

Ole Miss Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin will take the same job with the LSU Tigers, he announced Sunday, leaving the seventh-ranked team in the nation for its conference rival. “After a lot of prayer and time spent with family, I made the difficult decision to accept the head coaching position at LSU,” Kiffin wrote in a social media post.

With the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket set to be released in just over a week, Week 14 of the 2025 college football season served as one final impression for the committee. One of the biggest winners of the weekend was No. 8 Oklahoma. The Sooners secured a 17-13 comeback win over LSU to finish 10-2.

Before we turn our attention to the postseason, here’s how Big Ten teams and Notre Dame finished Week 14 — including a few wild weather games.