As the 16th and final season of the BCS era is underway, we brace ourselves for the four-team playoff set-up in 2014. Sure, the playoff is going to be awesome, but do you think it’s going remove debate from the college football equation? Hardly.

Every week, the USA TODAY Sports college football staff starts the party early by producing a Playoff Projection (compiled by panelists votes) on its debate-driven website, Football Four, with the intention to show what the College Football Playoff pairings might be if they were to be set today. This is purely a mock selection with no bearing on any official polls, rankings or standings.

Though the top four teams continue to remain the same after Week 5, Georgia’s defeat at LSU shows just how much bearing one result can have on the postseason. One week after placing fifth in the voting, LSU didn’t get a single vote from the USA TODAY Sports expert panel for the first time this season. Meanwhile Georgia, which beat the Tigers 44-41 last Saturday, became the fifth-place team and even got one first-place vote for the first time.

Here’s a visual for this week’s projection:

(Tim McGarry/USA TODAY Sports)