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Each week of the season, I will be a one-man College Football Playoff selection committee, picking the four teams that should be in the bracket if Selection Sunday were today. There still are 11 unbeaten teams, but the contender crop is altered after a flurry of defeats for one-loss ranked teams. The teams controlling their own destiny are two from the Southeastern Conference (Alabama and Texas A&M), three from the Big Ten (Michigan, Ohio State and Nebraska), Clemson and Washington.