Notre Dame will always be compared to USC as USC will always be compared to Notre Dame. That's just how rivalries have always gone and will always go. The matchup between the two happens on Thanksgiving weekend this year and could be huge in determining College Football Playoff bids.

The SEC and Big Ten continue to power early season College Football Playoff projections, but there are several programs on bubble watch inside the national rankings but outside of

In Week 4 of the college football season, the matchups provided the first big glimpse of the premier teams in their new conferences. The USC Trojans began Big Ten play on the road against the Michigan Wolverines while the Oklahoma Sooners began their inaugural season in the SEC with a visit from the Tennessee Volunteers.

With a new expanded College Football Playoff with 12 teams in, what will the final top 25 be? Here's are guess going into Week 5 of the season.

To take it a step further, most of those teams are elite or at least very good at throwing the ball and running it. Notre Dame is elite at running it and maybe one of the worst in