{"id":86,"date":"2017-12-03T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draftinsider.info\/?p=86"},"modified":"2018-01-26T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T02:22:07","slug":"alabama-returns-to-top-four-college-football-playoff-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/alabama-returns-to-top-four-college-football-playoff-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Returns to Top Four &#8211; College Football Playoff Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>College Football Playoff schedule<br \/>\nFinal Regular Season Top 25 Teams<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the 2017-18 college playoff lineup and College football playoff rankings<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jan. 1 \u2013 Semi-final Matchups<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>College Football Playoff at the Rose Bowl Game<br \/>\n#3 Georgia vs. #2 Oklahoma<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n5 p.m., ESPN<br \/>\nRose Bowl &#8211; Pasadena, California<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>College Football Playoff at the Sugar Bowl<br \/>\n#4 Alabama vs. #1 Clemson<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n8:45 p.m., ESPN<br \/>\nMercedes-Benz Superdome &#8211; New Orleans<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Photo &#8211; QB J.T. Barrett \u2013 Ohio St<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jan. 8<br \/>\nCollege Football Playoff National Championship Presented By AT&amp;T<br \/>\nSemi Final Winners<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n8 p.m. ESPN &#8211; Mercedes-Benz Stadium &#8211; Atlanta<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>College Football Playoff Rankings<br \/>\nRank \/ Team \/ Record<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n1 Clemson 12-1<br \/>\n2 Oklahoma 12-1<br \/>\n3 Georgia 12-1<br \/>\n4 Alabama 11-1<br \/>\n5 Ohio State 11-2<br \/>\n6 Wisconsin 12-1<br \/>\n7 Auburn 10-3<br \/>\n8 USC 11-2<br \/>\n9 Penn State 10-2<br \/>\n10 Miami 10-2<br \/>\n11 Washington 10-2<br \/>\n12 UCF 12-0<br \/>\n13 Stanford 9-4<br \/>\n14 Notre Dame 9-3<br \/>\n15 TCU 10-3<br \/>\n16 Michigan State 9-3<br \/>\n17 LSU 9-3<br \/>\n18 Washington State 9-3<br \/>\n19 Oklahoma State 9-3<br \/>\n20 Memphis 10-2<br \/>\n21 Northwestern 9-3<br \/>\n22 Virginia Tech 9-3<br \/>\n23 Mississippi State 8-4<br \/>\n24 NC State 8-4<br \/>\n25 Boise State 10-3<\/p>\n<p>Dropped from rankings: Fresno State 25<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Frank Coyle is a long-time scout with nationwide ties with coaches, scouts and player agents. He is a long-time member of the FWAA and voter in College player awards &#8211; Heisman, Outland, Nagurski, Lombardi, Thorpe, Biletnikoff etc for the past 20 years. He writes College Football Mondays weekly during the season. He is a longtime scouting consultant for the Senior Bowl, the nation\u2019s premier postseason All-star game. He does sports radio shows for ESPN, Fox Sports and Sporting News on a year-round basis related to College Football especially during the postseason team and All-star Bowl time. He has worked for CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Yahoo and Rivals sports publications and web sites<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Printer Friendly<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>College Football Playoff schedule Final Regular Season Top 25 Teams Here is the 2017-18 college playoff lineup and College football playoff rankings Jan. 1 \u2013 Semi-final Matchups College Football Playoff at the Rose <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/alabama-returns-to-top-four-college-football-playoff-schedule\/\" title=\"Alabama Returns to Top Four &#8211; College Football Playoff Schedule\">  [read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-25-college-teams","tag-draft-insider-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draftinsiders.com\/DraftInsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}