What It All Means: Week 4
Seriously. who’s that fourth team for the College Football Playoff now?
Obviously there are several teams out there with a great shot of ending up in the four team tournament, and let’s not just assume Ohio State, Georgia, and Alabama are 100% rock-solid sure things.
Remember, the CFP has yet to take a two-loss team. Ohio State looks amazing, but could it lose at Penn State? Could it stumble if there’s a key injury? Maybe, but …
Of course. Right now it’s malpractice to not assume OSU isn’t getting in, and the same goes for Georgia – more on that in the next blurb.
The assumption is that Alabama is in that mix, too, but there are a whole bunch of landmines to sidestep just to get to the SEC Championship. Would the CFP committee take Alabama if it loses once along the way and then drops the SEC title game to Georgia, or if the Dawgs lose once and then to Bama?
We have a while to figure that out. For now, fine – Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama.
Who’s the fourth? There isn’t one.
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The Big 12 appears to be doing a fine job of seeing its way out of the spot – the conference is too strong this year from 1-to-10 for anyone to seemingly get through and be 12-1. Notre Dame is gone, the idea of BYU is shot, and the Group of Five isn’t in the mix this time around.
More than just finding that fourth team, can anyone else get in and be something more than a speed bump?
Maybe Washington. Maybe Minnesota. They’re playing great, and so is Tennessee, and so is Kentucky, and so is Penn State, but … nah.
Did USC look all that special to you against Oregon State? Okay, so you didn’t see it because you probably couldn’t, but no, it didn’t look like it can get through the schedule with just one loss.
Michigan sputtered a bit too much against Maryland – the first time it had to play someone with a pulse this year – and Clemson has massive issues at defensive backs and with its consistency at receiver.
Syracuse has been a wonderful story so far, UCLA might keep on winning, and Ole Miss has quietly been lurking, but …
There is no fourth team right now.
We’re only a month in, and there are still about a gajillion things that will still happen, but for now there’s no fourth wheel for this CFP bus.
It would be great if there’s one that can hold up and do its part.
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