The college football regular season is complete.. The College Football Playoff field will be announced Sunday, Dec. 7. And yet after 15 weeks of play, there is still some mystery about which 12 teams will be part of the bracket.

Five bids to the College Football Playoff. The fifth being Alabama, which not only didn’t fall out despite Georgia shellacking it in the SEC championship, but didn’t even fall a spot in the final ranking.

The Sooners will host Alabama in the first round of the College Football Playoff, but they will be down a veteran defender.

PASADENA, Calif. — Top-ranked Indiana is headed to its first Rose Bowl in 58 years to face Oklahoma or Alabama. The Big Ten champion Hoosiers (13-0) made a storybook transformation into a college football powerhouse over the past two seasons, and now they'll play in the most fabled venue in the sport on New Year's Day.

Alabama's 28-7 loss to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game didn't impact its ranking, as it stayed at No. 9, and American champ Tulane and Sun Belt champ James Madison earned the final two automatic qualifiers as the two highest-ranked conference champions after Duke became a five-loss ACC champ.

A couple who had been married for more than 49 years died hours apart Saturday in Dothan. Betty Jean Joiner Cain, 78, and her husband Glenn Franklin Cain, 74, died at Southeast Medical Center. According to an obituary, Betty died suddenly, while Glenn passed on after a short illness. The two were married in October 1976.

The ninth-ranked Fighting Irish responded to getting dropped in the CFP rankings for the second consecutive week by turning down an invitation to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Florida.