The preseason football magazines are hitting shelves, and Phil Steele has predicted that Ohio State will repeat as college football's national champion in 2015.

Steele predicts OSU, TCU, Alabama and USC will be the teams that make the College Football Playoff following the 2015 season.

He has the No. 1-seeded Buckeyes beating USC in the Orange Bowl and predicts No. 2 TCU will defeat third-seeded Alabama in the Cotton Bowl. Steele then has OSU winning the national title against the Horned Frogs.

Ohio State won the inaugural College Football Playoff in 2014, and defeated the Crimson Tide on the way to the title. Steele thinks USC will replace Oregon in representing the Pac-12, and TCU will give the Big 12 the conference's first playoff team.

Steele has Florida State, which was a part of the playoff last season, taking on LSU in the Peach Bowl on New Year's Eve. In the other three "New Year's Six" bowl games, Steele has Notre Dame facing Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl, Michigan State playing Stanford in a traditional Big Ten/Pac-12 Rose Bowl and Georgia facing Baylor in the Sugar Bowl.

Steele predicts quite a drop off for Oregon, which lost in the championship game to the Buckeyes last season. He predicts the Ducks will face Oklahoma in the Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2.

Phil Steele's predictions for New Year's Six bowl games

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF

Championship Game

No. 1 Ohio State beats No. 2 TCU for the national championship

Semifinals

No. 1 Ohio State beats No. 4 USC in the Orange Bowl

No. 2 TCU defeated No. 3 Alabama in the Cotton Bowl

New Year's Six Bowl games

Peach Bowl - Florida State vs. LSU

Fiesta Bowl - Notre Dame vs. Boise State

Rose Bowl - Michigan State vs. Stanford

Sugar Bowl - Georgia vs. Baylor