Updated College Football Playoff bracket predictions entering week 14

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 entering week 14 of the season (last week’s version HERE). How will the Ohio State Buckeyes net out?