Las Vegas sets odds for Tennessee to make the College Football Playoff
Tennessee has a 69.7% chance to make the 12-team College Football Playoff, according to odds set by BetOnline. The Vols and Notre Dame are both at 69.7%, or 10/23 odds.
BetOnline set odds for 26 teams to make the playoff, ahead of the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season to be released Tuesday night.
Ohio State and Oregon topped the list with a 97.6% chance to make the playoff, with 1/40 odds. Georgia is next at 95.2%, with 1/20 odds. Miami and Texas are both at 93.4%, with 1/14 odds, and Penn State has a 75% chance at 1/3 odds.
Indiana has a 71.4% chance at 2/5 odds, just ahead of Tennessee and Notre Dame.
First College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night
The rankings from from College Football Playoff Selection Committee will be announced on ESPN beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday.
ESPN updated its projected playoff bracket and seed list on Tuesday morning, with Tennessee as a No. 8 seed hosting No. 9 Boise State in the first round.
The top four seeds from ESPN were No. 1 Oregon, No. 2 Georgia, No. 3 Miami and No. 4 BYU. The other first-round games were No. 10 Notre Dame at No. 7 Penn State, No. 11 Indiana at No. 6 Texas and No. 12 Alabama at No. 5 Ohio State.
The final two teams in the field, according to ESPN’s Heather Dinich, were Indiana and Alabama.
“If the Tide lose to LSU (on Saturday night),” Dinich wrote, “their chances to reach the playoff will drop to 14%.”
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ESPN’s first four out were SMU, Texas A&M, LSU and Ole Miss. The next four out were Iowa State, Colorado, Clemson and Washington State.
Tennessee (7-1, 4-1 SEC), ranked No. 6 in the Coaches Poll and No. 7 in the Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, host Mississippi State (2-7, 0-5) on Saturday night (7 p.m. Eastern Time, ESPN) at Neyland Stadium.
The Vols go to No. 2 Georgia next week, in a 7:30 p.m. ET start on ABC at Sanford Stadium in Athens.
“At No. 8,” Dinich wrote, “Tennessee is the last team to earn a first-round home game, which is awarded to teams seeded Nos. 5-8. If Boise State were to win this theoretical matchup, the Broncos would face Oregon for the second time this season. The committee doesn’t reseed to avoid potential rematches in the bracket. The No. 9 vs. No. 8 winner will always advance to play the No. 1 seed.”
