Oregon lands at No. 1 as first 12-team College Football Playoff is set

State of play: No. 1 Oregon (Big Ten), No. 2 Georgia (SEC), No. 9 Boise State (Mountain West) and No. 12 Arizona State (Big 12), respectively, locked up the top four seeds as the highest ranked conference champs, securing first round byes in the process.

• ACC champion No. 16 Clemson grabbed the 12th seed.

Zoom in: Here are the rest of the seeds and matchups:

• 12th seed Clemson at 5th seed Texas on Dec. 21 at 4pm ET on TNT/Max
• 11th seed SMU at 6th seed Penn State on Dec. 21 at noon ET on TNT/Max
• 10th seed Indiana at 7th seed Notre Dame on Dec. 20 at 8pm ET on ESPN/ABC
• 9th seed Tennessee at 8th seed Ohio State on Dec. 21 at 8pm on ESPN/ABC

The intrigue: Alabama and Miami were each left out of the playoffs after suffering ugly losses toward the end of the regular season.

How to watch: Round 1 of the CFP will take place Dec. 20-21 as teams seeded No. 5-12 will battle to advance to the second round.

• The quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 at neutral locations in the first four of the New Year's Six bowls.
• The semifinals are Jan. 9-10 as all roads lead to the National Championship on Jan. 20 in Atlanta.