You won't have to wait long to find out the final College Football Playoff rankings

HOUSTON — The Texas Longhorns fell in overtime to Georgia in the SEC Championship game on Saturday night and now wait to find out where they’ll be seeded in the College Football Playoffs. And SMU -- after falling in the ACC title game to Clemson on a last-second field Saturday -- will find out if they're in the field. This year, the College Football Playoffs were expanded to include 12 teams, up from the four teams it had been since its inception and those 12 teams will be revealed on Sunday, Dec. 8.  

When will the final CFP rankings be released?

The 12 teams playing for the national title will be revealed on Sunday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Houston time. We will post updates as they're being announced. Download the KHOU 11 app and we'll send you an alert on all of the seedings.

How the College Football Playoffs will work

The five highest-ranked conference champions are automatically in the College Football Playoff. The seven highest-ranked teams remaining will fill out the bracket of 12.

The top four teams will get a bye in the first round of the playoff. Of the remaining teams, the higher-ranked teams in each matchup will host the first-round games. Here is how those first-round matchups line up.

• No. 5 vs. No. 12
• No. 6 vs. No. 11
• No. 7 vs. No. 10
• No. 8 vs. No. 9

Once those games are over, there will be eight teams remaining. The next round – the quarterfinals – will be played in bowls with a rotating schedule.

This year, those quarterfinal games will be played at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (Dec. 31), Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Jan. 1), Prudential Rose Bowl (Jan. 1) and Allstate Sugar Bowl (Jan. 1).

Then the semifinal round, which will include the four teams remaining, will be played at the Capital One Orange Bowl (Jan. 1) and the Goodyear Cotton Bowl (Jan. 10).

The national title game will be in Atlanta on Jan. 20.

Here's more about the College Football Playoffs from a story we posted earlier in the season.

College Football Rankings from Dec. 3

Here are the new College Football Playoff rankings, as of Tuesday, Dec. 3, before the conference championship games. These will change for the final rankings.

1. Oregon  
2. Texas  
3. Penn State  
4. Notre Dame  
5. Georgia 
6. Ohio State  
7. Tennessee 
8. SMU  
9. Indiana  
10. Boise State 
11. Alabama  
12. Miami  
13. Ole Miss 
14. South Carolina  
15. Arizona State  
16. Iowa State  
17. Clemson  
18. BYU 
19. Missouri  
20. UNLV  
21. Illinois  
22. Syracuse  
23. Colorado  
24. Army  
25. Memphis