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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.
Watch it as it aired: Hank Ledger, Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield on this story, from BBN This Morning at 8:57 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are ESPN's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by ESPN: “CFP Bubble Watch at midseason: The playoff field is wide open”, with reporting from Oddspedia.
- Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 8:57 AM ET on BBN This Morning, by Hank Ledger, Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: CFP.
- BBN covered this story before: Texas Senate bus tours, UFC 333 trilogy and the CFP picture (October 20).
The real story
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- ESPNCFP Bubble Watch at midseason: The playoff field is wide open
- OddspediaCFP Projections 2026: Playoff Locks, Bubble Teams, and Longshot facts used on air
What BBN said about it

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.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChip, your take.

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

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.

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

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere's mine.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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