Jinxes! Miss. St., Notre Dame, Ohio St. and TCU on SI covers

If you're a fan of Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Ohio State or TCU, your chances of a national title in 2015 are gone. Vanished. Toast.

Why? Your team is on one of the four regional covers for Sports Illustrated's college football preview issue. And since we know the Sports Illustrated cover curse is a completely real thing that always happens, we're going to go ahead and modify our preseason projections to ensure we don't pick any of the four teams for the College Football Playoff.

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OK, we're kidding about the jinx part. And our predictions. We don't believe in the jinx. But the teams are on the covers of the magazine, which comes out this week. Here are the photos of the four covers, which all have mascots as well. That's one cute bulldog.

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