The new ESPN FPI rankings are out as of Sunday morning. The top-five from last week remained unchnaged. 1. Texas 2. Ohio State 3. Alabama 4. Georgia 5. Notre Dame 6. Ole Miss 7. Oregon 8. Tennessee 9. Miami 10. Indiana 11. Penn State 12. LSU 13. Clemson

And as we sit here in the first week of the final month of the regular season, there are more than two dozen teams with a path to the 12-team CFP. Some are the teams still in the mix because they're alive in their conference races,

For much of the time after Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois, the Action Network's Brett McMurphy was not empathetic. He consistently had the Irish in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, thus rendering their first season in the expanded College Football Playoff era a failure.