College Football Rooting Guide
The Rooting Guide is a college football rooting guide built to answer the question fans ask every Saturday: beyond my own game, who should I root for? Choose an FBS team and the guide ranks the week’s other matchups by how much each result could help or hurt that team’s modeled College Football Playoff chances.
Turn the national slate into your team’s rooting plan
Start by choosing your team. Each weekly guide separates the games that matter from the ones that do not, shows the preferred winner, and explains the modeled CFP-odds change behind the recommendation. The estimates are pregame model outputs, not official committee projections or sportsbook probabilities. They are designed to make a crowded national scoreboard easier to follow without pretending every result has the same importance.
If you want the widest view, open National Impact to see which games can reshape the playoff race for the largest number of teams. Every supported matchup has a detailed impact page with current participant outlooks, win-and-loss paths, and a sortable table showing how either outcome changes modeled CFP probabilities across the FBS.
Explore the full CFP picture
The guide connects the weekly rooting view to the rest of the playoff picture. Compare every team in CFP Odds, inspect title-game and championship paths in Conference Standings, and see the modeled 12-team field in the Projected CFP Bracket. Team pages add schedules, records, conference context, and direct links between opponents, so you can move from a national result to the teams it affects.
The current experience uses a frozen Week 10 pregame snapshot so the probabilities and explanations remain internally consistent. Live scores may help organize the viewing experience, but completed results do not silently rewrite the published pregame model. That separation keeps the guide clear about what was known when each recommendation was produced.
Who should I root for this weekend in college football?
Start with BYU rooting interests, LSU rooting interests, or Ohio State rooting interests. Every team uses the same shareable interactive rooting-guide format.
Week 10 pregame CFP leaders
| Team | Record | CFP odds | Automatic bid | At-large |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami | 8-0 | 98.7% | 76.3% | 22.4% |
| Indiana | 8-1 | 88.9% | 36.1% | 52.8% |
| Notre Dame | 7-1 | 87.7% | 0.0% | 87.7% |
| Georgia | 7-1 | 84.9% | 41.9% | 43.0% |
| Utah | 8-0 | 83.4% | 45.6% | 37.8% |
| Alabama | 6-2 | 76.5% | 15.8% | 60.7% |
| Ohio State | 6-2 | 69.8% | 45.7% | 24.1% |
| Texas | 6-2 | 62.2% | 7.1% | 55.1% |
| Boise State | 7-1 | 56.8% | 56.0% | 0.8% |
| BYU | 7-1 | 51.4% | 15.6% | 35.8% |
| Ole Miss | 6-2 | 50.4% | 12.5% | 37.9% |
| LSU | 6-2 | 49.1% | 12.9% | 36.2% |