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CFP Bubble Watch at midseason: The playoff field is wide open

ESPN Analytics gives Miami a 94.8 percent chance at the 12-team playoff, whose bracket is revealed December 6; the decimal point is carrying a lot of confidence.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorESPN's midseason bubble watch says the playoff field is wide open, and ESPN Analytics gives Miami a ninety-four point eight percent chance of making it.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChip, your take.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNinety-four point eight is a team I'd trust with my casserole dish.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMiami scores forty-eight and a half points a game, so I say they're in, and the other five point two percent is just the parking lot.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNot. Nobody is a parking lot.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere's mine.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThis is the third straight week with a different number one in the AP poll, first time in fourteen years. That's a sitcom with a new lead every Monday, and the finale is a bracket on December sixth.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot. The lead changes more than my coffee order.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWait, you have a coffee order?

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOddspedia lists Notre Dame at minus eight thousand, ninety-eight point seven seven percent.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo decimals for a team that lost, so that is my final take, and it is the hottest.

  12. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'm calling my own thermometer a hundred and one percent HOT, and I've already printed the bracket.

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