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2026 College Football Playoff bracket projection: Why Western Michigan cracks field despite loss to Michigan

Getty Images Lawsuits, clock operators, power outages and almost upsets defined a chaotic Week 1 of the college football season. What didn’t define it? Top 25 games as we only got one, albeit a thrilling one, between Ole Miss and Louisville in Nashville. With limited data and few good games on paper, there isn’t a need to make massive changes to our preseason College Football Playoff projections. Still, there were teams that impressed (Miami, LS…

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2026 College Football Playoff bracket projection: Why Western Michigan cracks field despite loss to Michigan

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