PhotoTwo more title games promise playoff spots should the right team win them. So the photo finish will probably be between those two redoubtable blue bloods Ohio State and Alabama. Alabama is likely to have beaten just one ranked team, Louisiana State, but statistically it has been its usual dominant self. And it would not be unprecedented for an 11-1 nonchampion, such as Alabama, to leap over an 11-2 champion, such as Ohio State. Ohio State did it to Penn State last season.

Source: New York Times November 26, 2017 18:22 UTC