CFP Rankings Predictions & Projections: Who Will Be In The 2025 College Playoff Rankings?

Today, we will find out who will make the College Football Playoff when the CFP Selection Committee releases its rankings. Several teams have strong cases to make it, but we could be looking at two Group of Five teams making the CFP.

Here’s a look at the CFP picture as of right now:

College Football Playoff Bracket Predictions

Here’s the teams I predict will be in the College Football Playoff field:

• Indiana
• Ohio State
• Georgia
• Texas Tech
• Oregon
• Ole Miss
• Texas A&M
• Oklahoma
• Alabama
• Tulane
• James Madison

2025 CFP Playoff National Championship Predictions

I predict Ohio State will play Oregon in the College Football Playoff national championship with Oregon winning.

Right now, I think the Ducks, led by quarterback Dante Moore, have a good shot of dominating in the postseason.

I really like how Ohio State has played, and I think the Buckeyes have a good chance to make a deep run. But I think Oregon is capable of playing at the highest level in the CFP.

2025 G5 CFP Bracket Predictions

I predict Tulane and James Madison will be the two Group of Five teams to make the College Football Playoff. That’s because the Green Wave won the American Conference Championship and JMU won the Sun Belt. With Duke, which was 7-5 during the regular season, beating Virginia in the ACC Championship, JMU has a good shot at making the CFP considering Duke was unranked last week and JMU was at No. 25.

The Case For Tulane

Tulane’s CFP candidacy among G5 teams hinges on its strength of schedule. If you’re someone who values SOS, even if records aren’t the same, then the Green Wave are probably your No. 1 team in the G5.

It’s tough to argue against what Tulane has done this year, especially in the non-conference portion of its schedule. The Green Wave beat Northwestern 23-3 and Duke 34-27 earlier this year. 

But Tulane also has two losses. For the sake of this discussion, it would be easy to excuse the Green Wave’s first loss of the year, a 45-10 defeat at Ole Miss. 

But you can’t ignore Tulane losing 48-26 to UTSA, which is 6-6 and barely earned bowl-eligibility. That performance is a massive blemish on an otherwise solid resume.

Still, Tulane has 11 wins against a good collection of teams including North Texas, East Carolina, and Army.

The Case For JMU

James Madison hasn’t had a strong strength of schedule – though it looked good going into the season. Nonetheless, the Dukes have been mostly dominant all year.

After beating Weber State to start, the Dukes were competitive with a good Louisville team and were leading at halftime before eventually falling 28-14. But that Week 2 loss is JMU’s last and only loss of the year thus far.

The Dukes have won 11 straight games, and all but two of those contests were decided by double digits. One of those close games, a 14-7 win at Georgia State which is now 1-11 overall, is a game some JMU critics will surely point to.

JMU couldn’t control how some of its opponents, like Texas State and Liberty, haven’t lived up to preseason expectations. But the Dukes can control how they win. They were sixth in the country in average scoring margin (plus-20.3 points per game) after the regular season.