College Football Playoff 2025: Bubble Watch In The SEC After Week 11

This week, ESPN's Heather Dinich laid out the latest College Football Bubble Watch for the SEC after Week 11.

According to Dinich, if the playoffs were today, five teams from the SEC would be in: Texas A&M, Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, and Texas.

Oklahoma and Vanderbilt would need help to get in.

SEC:

Would Be In: Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas, Texas A&M

Last Team In: Texas

First Team Out: Oklahoma

Still In The Mix: Vanderbilt

Out: Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee

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Last team in: Texas. If BYU drops below Texas and Oklahoma on Tuesday night, that will mean the Longhorns get a promotion by default. They had a well-timed bye Saturday to prepare for Georgia, and nobody has a better chance to impress the selection committee this month than Texas. The Longhorns will face two top-five opponents in Georgia and No. 3 Texas A&M, but with a bad loss to Florida to go along with the loss to Ohio State, Texas is still on the bubble, even though it could appear to be in a safer spot this week. If Texas finishes as a three-loss team, it's conceivable that it could be ranked in the top 12, but it would likely face a similar situation to Alabama last year. The Tide were the committee's top three-loss team but got bumped out of the top 12 during the seeding process to make room for a conference champion that earned a guaranteed spot. With the ACC and Group of 5 champions currently outside of the committee's top 12, it looks like the No. 11- and No. 12-ranked teams would be excluded -- and that's probably the ceiling for a three-loss Texas team.

First team out: Oklahoma. The Sooners had a bye this week to prepare for Alabama, which is essentially a playoff-elimination game for OU. Unlike Texas, the Sooners likely wouldn't have enough on their résumé to compensate for a third loss, even if it was on the road to a top-four team. Their best wins would be against Michigan, Auburn and Tennessee -- and they'd lose the head-to-head tiebreaker to Texas if their records remain the same.

Still in the mix: Vanderbilt. The Commodores need some chaos to get back into the conversation, but the overtime win against Auburn kept hopes alive. Vandy won't play in the SEC championship game, and its only remaining opponents are Kentucky and Tennessee. Texas, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt are jockeying for a fifth at-large bid for the SEC -- which isn't guaranteed -- and Texas has the head-to-head win over Vandy. If OU and Texas lose, though, and Vandy wins out, Vandy could move up on Selection Day.

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