Author: Erick Smith, USA TODAY

There wasn’t any change at the top of this week’s college football bowl projections, but there were some adjustments in the New Year’s Six.

The top of the College Football Playoff committee rankings looked a lot like last week. Alabama and Notre Dame lead Clemson and Ohio State.

Ohio State remains in the College Football Playoff field of this week’s bowl projections, but the Buckeyes have uncertainty ahead.

The initial College Football Playoff ranking of the season has some teams looking up and some looking down. A breakdown of the winners and losers.

California and Washington were scheduled to meet in their first game of the college football season, but the game has been canceled due to COVID-19.

Trevor Lawrence will not play for No. 1 Clemson when the Tigers travel to No. 4 Notre Dame next week due to his positive test for COVID-19 this week.

The outlook for the College Football Playoff was impacted by the start of the Big Ten season with Michigan moving up and Penn State falling back.

The start of the Big Ten season was delayed seven weeks after being shut down and then restarted. Ranking all seven conference game this weekend.