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Except for the B1G teams that are playing, without a "Clue"

A rematch would be problematic; but that would be a game of adjustments & I like Oregon in that situation. If Indiana can beat tOSU in the 'shoe, they'd be a very scary, unknown opponent.

Conversation is what a Forum is for, great conversation is what we have here, go around to the other sites, but don't stay too long. Trying to find the original point in a topic is almost impossible, having long ago been buried by personal attacks and completely irrelevant comments.

After this season, no way does Miami lose the ACC title game. Cig's line is Chip worthy.

Exactly!

It's an interesting premise, David, but I disagree with it. It isn't their fault, but Hunter, Jeanty & Ward have all made the best of playing against inferior opponents the whole season, except Jeanty, who's Boise State team. did play an Oregon team, that was finding its footing, early in the season and lost. The three players are doing what's expected of them against inferior opponents. Is Jeanty "certainly the best running back in all of college football this season? He's certainly the best playing against the competition he's faced. Ward too, has put up great numbers against week competition, but needed a lot of help to get wins. Hunter at Colorado, great player, both sides of the ball. Colorado is 6-2, the best team they have played is Nebraska, who buried them. Meanwhile Gabriel is the QB of the No.1 team in the country, putting up great numbers, except in the 2nd half, and his team has 3 top 25 wins. He has had Heisman moments when the pressure was on, the other 3 haven't faced pressure like that. The timing of the Heisman is just fine.

Yes, OBD will show their mettle. Wisconsin fans can "Jump around" all they want, won't matter.

Oh yeah, Classic it is!!!

One of these teams is NOT like the others, one of them just doesn't BELONG! College Football Playoff TIERS | Oregon, Texas Georgia, Miami Top Tier? | Tennessee, LSU Pushing!

Okay, for a while I thought that finishing No.5 and starting off with a home game might be a "good and good" type of deal. But no. Being No.1 when this starts and being No.1 when it's over, is the only option.

Murray, Mayfield, Williams were all incredibly talented QB's, Riley was there. Miller Moss isn't up to their level, Riley is there, and Moss just got benched. NFL star, Herbert, didn't have great stats, now all of a sudden Ward at Miami is putting up Heisman level numbers. Easier for a coach to just get out of the way.

What is it with QB's from down south named Cam? I just don't like 'em. I get that this version is putting up great stats, But I can't, and actually don't want to, get over that without being saved by the video booth, all of his heroics would still have the Canes sitting at 6-3 at best.

Blown out by Nebraska, 2 losses and a 1st round Bye just like the No.1 team gets. Something definitely off here. Nebraska, Colorado & Oregon always messes things up.

Clearly having 64 teams instead 12 is a big difference. But, being No.1 in the basketball bracket is substantially superior to being a 5. In the football format, Oregon gets a bye, just like 2,3 & 4 do. While No.5 gets to host a home game against the No.12 team, while No.1's first game will be the winner of 8/9. There are definite advantages to being No.5.

There was no doubt about it, not even Joey Galloway, from Ohio State, had a problem with it. College Football Playoff: 5 Winners and losers from the first rankings FTW.USATODAY.COM The first CFP rankings went great for Oregon and the SEC

Well, that Husky fan is a sciolist.

There are only a couple elite programs on the West Coast now (UW and Oregon) and with USC in turmoil it should greatly help recruiting.

Rece Davis: "I like Will Howard as a young man, and I think he's a good quarterback," Davis said. "But if it comes down to who's gonna make a play—Will Howard or Cam Ward, Will Howard or Dillon Gabriel, Will Howard or even Quinn Ewers... I'm not sure I'd take him over any of those guys to make that play."

First, there wasn't any need for changing anything, now the change that is made, won't change anything. QB change a desperate attempt from USC HC Lincoln Riley to salvage lost season WWW.YARDBARKER.COM USC head coach Lincoln Riley found a scapegoat for the Trojans' frustrating first year as a Big Ten conference member.

So far, parity in the B1G is 3 deep, 4 I guess if Penn State has to be included. SEC has 5, Georgia, Texas, ATM, Tennessee & apparently the winner of Alabama -LSU this Saturday. Michigan & Washington should improve in time for the 16 team format,

Couldn't agree more. Even if tOSU beats Indy soundly, which I don't see happening, I'll go with beating the Buckeyes again, rather than facing Indy in their dream season.

It's a bit pathetic I know, but after Full of KLATT said he finally thought that Oregon would cover at Michigan I really wanted them to, and they wouldn't have if the Ducks had taken a knee. I also liked it because as Kamikaze pointed out in another post, running up the middle is how it's done in the B1G.

I get it. and I guess PSU is mediocre at best, but they're our mediocre now, and maybe Indy is so good it doesn't matter who they're playing.

Great start, and DA says the same thing after every game since he's been at Oregon. It's a huge disappointment that Dante wasn't allowed to stay. But this year's Ducks can go deep in March Madness.

Last season Michigan didn't pass very much either. But they went undefeated all the way to the Natty, where they beat UW, a team that could pass, So, 1 dimensional football can win. Indiana is running and passing away from everybody they've played this season, but they haven't played a team as good as Michigan yet. Penn State is 7-1. But that feeble 4 down fail at the end of the game against tOSU says that they're actually closer to the top 3 in the B1G and will be tested by UW this week.