Notre Dame, Virginia and Texas Tech are on the College Football Playoff mock bracket based on the latest AP Top 25.

COLLEGE STATION — After a week of rest in its final regular season bye week of the year Texas A&M football stands pat in the polls entering Week 11. With no game to further boost their resume, the Aggies remain No. 3 in the US LBM coaches poll and the AP Top 25 poll.

Vanderbilt's big rally against Texas came up short as an onside kick rolled out of bounds and took one last chance for the Commodores with it. Ninth-ranked Vanderbilt rallied from a 34-10 deficit in the fourth quarter with three unanswered touchdowns Saturday before losing 34-31.

The college football league that boasts that it’s the deepest and toughest in the country is rapidly running out of unbeaten teams.

Devastation was felt for yet another Southeastern Conference game last week as Mississippi State found another creative way to lose. For 16-straight games in league play, that’s been the case. It was different the last two years for the Bulldogs as the talent level and depth wasn’t where it needed to be.

I was giving the Southeastern Conference heck earlier this year because I was saying that the Big Ten had three football teams better than the SEC’s best team.

Auburn fired coach Hugh Freeze on Sunday, moving on after the Tigers lost for the 12th time in their last 15 Southeastern Conference games. The 56-year-old Freeze failed to fix Auburn’s offensive issues in three years on the Plains,

Oklahoma's Brent Venables is the No. 23 highest-paid coach in college football, according to USA TODAY's 2025 compensation survey. The Sooners coach is set to earn a total of $7,552,000, not including bonuses, which ranks No. 10 in the Southeastern Conference.

With a month left in the regular season, it looks like four Southeastern Conference teams will make the College Football Playoff. Upsets can certainly happen, but Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M and Ole Miss all look the part of tournament-bound teams.