Speaking of playoffs…thanks to the Rose Bowl agreeing to a deal, the 12-team playoff begins in the 2024 season.
College Football Playoff Expands to 12 Teams Beginning in 2024 - College Football Playoff
So it will be possible for a team or two to play 16 games in a season:
12 regular season games
1 conference championship game
3 playoff games, possibly
18 games is possible; 13 regular season (Hawaii, and teams that have away games at Hawaii, can play 13), a conference championship, and up to four playoff games (only the top 4 seeds get a bye in the first round).
New Mexico State got a bowl eligibility waiver from the NCAA, so there are now 80 bowl-eligible teams.
Rice is pretty much guaranteed to get one of the last two; the other goes to Buffalo if it beats Akron on Friday, or UNLV if Akron wins. Note that if a team declines a bowl bid, it goes to Michigan State, then Auburn, then Miami.
Ah, yes, you are correct. My maths is bad.
USC has played themselves out of the CFP. Ohio State is in.
Can TCU hold serve? Or can they get in even with a loss tomorrow?
USC got freaking WREKT. Which sucks because I was hoping to see a PAC-12 team in the championship.
I mean
Ohio State got WREKT by Michigan, too. But you’re probably right, based on the fact that at least OSU is only a one-loss team.
If OSU is indeed in, would it be the first time that a conference other than ESPN’s darling SEC fields two teams in the playoff?
This is going to cause a tumbling of the bowl games for the Pac 12. Washington was projected to face Penn State in the Rose Bowl, that spot now goes to Utah. USC is still good enough to get one of the other New Years Six games. This is going to bump the top 10 ranked Huskies to a 2nd tier game in either San Diego or San Antonio.
Goddamn Utah. 
That was one heckuva drive by TCU. Now K-State has plenty of time to get into field goal position to win the game.
Cats win!
And down goes TCU. Georgia and Michigan have surely learned from the Horned Frogs and Trojans not to look past the conference title games.
Might be a reason, winning 5 out of the 8 years
FWIW, Clemson and Notre Dame were in the Playoff in 2018.
Notre Dame is kinda sortof in the ACC Conference. by the loosest of loose definitions.
Truly upset my Dawgs allowed a 1st quarter touchdown as we take a 35-7 lead over LSU @ halftime. 
Lol, this footage:
Not that it matters, but it’s 35-10 at halftime.
Yeah, left the keyboard assuming the score would hold.
And Michigan wins the Big Ten to go undefeated for 13-0! 
So it appears that most sites are predicting the playoff as:
- Georgia vs. 4. Ohio State
- Michigan vs. 3. TCU
Although a few outliers are switching OSU and TCU.