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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.

For the first time in five weeks, the matchups in the Football Four Playoff Projection have changed, with Alabama facing Baylor and Florida State facing Ohio State in the mock tournament.

All four teams saw large increases in their voting points, a direct result of former No. 2 seed Oregon’s loss at Stanford last Thursday. The Ducks received no votes from the panel of USA TODAY Sports experts this week, the first time that has happened in 2013.

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

(Tim McGarry/USA TODAY Sports)