College Football Playoff bracket predictions following Ohio State’s loss to Michigan

Following Ohio State’s loss to Oregon in mid-October, I released my protection for how the College Football Playoff bracket would end up and what the results of the matchups would be. Now that the CFP Rankings have started to release weekly, Lettermen Row will provide weekly projections on what the final field will look like. This is not just taking the rankings of the current top 12 teams and putting them in their appropriate slots, but looking at the games ahead, predicting what will happen, and slotting teams in seeds based on those projected results. Here is this week’s predicted College Football Playoff field and ensuing matchups following the Buckeyes’ loss to Michigan. How will the Ohio State Buckeyes net out?