Where is OU football in playoff picture? CFP bracket projections after Week 14

Coach Brent Venables and the OU football team took care of business in the regular-season finale, surviving LSU for a 17-13 win.

Now, it's a waiting game for the Sooners before learning their fate for the College Football Playoff.

OU (10-2, 6-2 SEC) was eighth in the CFP rankings in Week 14.

The next update for the CFP rankings will come at 6 p.m. CT Tuesday, Dec. 2 (ESPN).

Here's how The Oklahoman sports staff see the 12-team playoff field playing out come Sunday, Dec. 7:

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*-Denotes one of the five conference champions to make the 12-team CFP field

Jenni Carlson, columnist

1. Indiana*

2. Ohio State

3. Georgia*

4. Texas Tech*

5. Texas A&M

6. Oregon

7. Ole Miss

8. Oklahoma

9. Notre Dame

10. Alabama

11. Virginia*

12. North Texas*

I don’t love some of the first-round matchups that this sets up, namely an SEC matchup with Ole Miss hosting Alabama and North Texas having to go to Texas A&M (though a Mean Green upset of the Ags would be rich, I tell ya!), but the selection committee isn’t supposed to care about any of that. But I’m going with Indiana, Georgia and Texas Tech as conference-title-game winners and putting them in the top four. Plus, even though I’m picking the Hoosiers to upset the Buckeyes (talk about rich!), it’s hard to see a dominant Ohio State team falling from the top two.

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1. Ohio State*

2. Georgia*

3. Texas Tech*

4. Indiana

5. Oregon

6. Texas A&M

7. Ole Miss

8. Oklahoma

9. Notre Dame

10. Alabama

11. Virginia*

12. North Texas*

Texas and Miami are the biggest losers. Texas beat two of the top-eight teams and two of the 'Horns' three losses came against the top-two teams in my projection. Yes, Texas did this to itself by losing to Florida. But if it would've scheduled Ohio instead of Ohio State, a two-loss Texas is safely in. As for Miami, the Hurricanes made a statement by walloping Pitt, but the committee has been steadfast in ranking Notre Dame ahead of Miami despite the head-to-head matchup. If Virginia beats Duke in the ACC championship and North Texas beats Tulane in the American title game, UVA quarterback Chandler Morris will have played for a quarter of the teams in the field (OU, North Texas).

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Jeff Patterson, sports editor

1. Ohio State*

2. Georgia*

3. Indiana

4. Oregon

5. Texas A&M

6. Oklahoma

7. Notre Dame

8. Ole Miss

9. BYU*

10. Texas Tech

11. Tulane*

12. James Madison*

Three Big Ten teams getting byes? Two Big 12 teams in the bracket? No ACC team in the field? Alabama getting squeezed out for losing in the SEC title game to a team it already beat? Let's all embrace the chaos. Who are the agents of chaos? Say hello to new LSU coach Lane Kiffin, whose Oxford exit knocks down Ole Miss a few spots much like how the CFP committee treated Florida State two years ago after quarterback Jordan Travis' injury. Also meet a five-loss Duke winning the ACC championship and a one-loss BYU avenging its lone loss by taking down Texas Tech for the Big 12 title.

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Colton Sulley, OU beat writer

1. Ohio State*

2. Indiana

3. Georgia*

4. Ole Miss

5. Texas A&M

6. Texas Tech*

7. Oregon

8. Oklahoma

9. Notre Dame

10. Alabama

11. Virginia*

12. North Texas*

I'm avoiding total chaos by picking Virginia to defeat Duke in the ACC Championship Game, putting an end to the possibility of two non-power league champion bids. In the Big 12, BYU needs to beat Texas Tech to secure a spot, but I have them losing and missing as an at-large bubble team. Sign me up for a battle of the blue bloods in Norman as I have Oklahoma barely keeping its home playoff game.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: CFP bracket projections for OU football after beating LSU in Week 14