2026 College Football Playoff Odds: Are UCLA, Utah Legit Contenders?

The 2026 College Football Playoff will once again feature 12 teams. 

Just like in 2025, the four highest-ranked teams overall in the final selection committee rankings earn the top four seeds and first-round byes, regardless of whether they won a conference title. The remaining playoff teams will then be seeded based entirely on the final CFP rankings. 

The final automatic bid (usually the 12th seed) will go to the highest-ranked team from one of the Group of 6 conferences (American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, or Sun Belt), regardless of whether it won its conference championship.

Let's take a look at the odds to make the College Football Playoff as of Oct. 11 at DraftKings Sportsbook. 

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Notre Dame: -3000 
Georgia: -2500
Miami: -1500
Indiana: -800 
Ohio State: -750 
Alabama: -700 
Texas: -450 
Utah: +105 
UCLA: +105 
Texas Tech: +120 
Boise State: +140 
Ole Miss: +150 
LSU: +170 
BYU: +200 
Oregon: +300 
Tennessee: +330
Iowa: +380 
James Madison: +400
New Mexico: +425 
Missouri: +500

Here's what to know about this oddsboard:

Irish On Top: After controversially being the last team left out of the 2025 Playoff, Notre Dame is heavily favored to make it this season — although its competition so far this season has been nothing to write home about. The Irish will travel to ranked BYU in Week 7 and have a clash with reigning CFP runner-up Miami on Nov. 7, but in its first six games, Notre Dame outscored Wisconsin, Rice, Michigan State, Purdue, UNC and Stanford 264-66. Each of those six teams is unranked.

West Coast Elite: Are UCLA and Utah the real deal? The Bruins, under first-year head coach Bob Chesney, are 5-0 and just beat Oregon in Eugene, 17-15. That's a big win. Its odds to make the CFP were +455 last week, but now they land at +105, ninth on the board. Also consider this: UCLA doesn't face another ranked opponent until its rivalry game with USC on Nov. 28, and that game is on the Bruins' home turf. As for Utah, it is 5-0 with five blowout wins, scoring at least 31 points in each of those games. It has ranked matchups with Houston and BYU over the next four weeks, but both are at home.