Author: Erick Smith, USA TODAY

There’s a new contender for Alabama quarterback Mac Jones in this week’s Heisman Trophy watch. His teammate DeVonta Smith moved up into second place.

The Pac-12 title game changed Monday when Washington was forced to drop out and was replaced by Oregon as the South division participant to face USC.

There wasn’t any change at the top of this week’s college football bowl projections, but there were some adjustments in the New Year’s Six.

The top of the College Football Playoff committee rankings looked a lot like last week. Alabama and Notre Dame lead Clemson and Ohio State.

Ohio State remains in the College Football Playoff field of this week’s bowl projections, but the Buckeyes have uncertainty ahead.

The initial College Football Playoff ranking of the season has some teams looking up and some looking down. A breakdown of the winners and losers.

The last bowl projections before the College Football Playoff committee reveals its initial rankings offers a prediction of the playoff field.

Notre Dame improved its College Football Playoff chances, but there was no change at the top of this week’s college football bowl projections.

Trevor Lawrence will not play for No. 1 Clemson when the Tigers travel to No. 4 Notre Dame next week due to his positive test for COVID-19 this week.