Each week, The Dash will identify 12 people dealing with damaged College Football Playoff hopes, and gauge their teams’ chances of rebounding from calamity.
The 12-team College Football Playoff is a wellspring of hope and excitement for dozens of fan bases. But as the losses accrue, it also will be a source of discontent for those who see their chances slipping away. Each week, The Dash will identify 12 people dealing with damaged playoff hopes, and gauge their teams’ chances of rebounding from calamity.The Oklahoma Sooners icon saw them lose the battle of his former assistants, one of whom he once fired.
If you want the definition of un-clutch, it was Nebraska’s final eight offensive snaps. Up a touchdown and going for the win, freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola missed an open receiver for a touchdown. Then the Huskers missed a short field goal. Then, after Illinois tied the game to force overtime and Nebraska took a knee to end regulation, it got worse. The Illini scored and the Huskers responded with: false start, sack, sack, short completion, sack. Game over.
USC’s chances of making the playoff: A quality win over LSU certainly helps the resume, and a last-minute loss to Michigan on the road is not a crime. But with four road games and visits from the Penn State Nittany Lions and Notre Dame Fighting Irish still to come, USC will have to win several big games to stay in the hunt.
Cal’s chances of making the playoff: Beat the Miami Hurricanes in ors next game, Oct. 5, and we’ll talk. Ol’ Roy knew when to retire, and you wonder whether he needs to communicate that to Ol’ Mack Brown, age 73. Brown says he’ll be back at work this week, but it’s hard to even know where to start fixing that situation.
Kansas State’s chances of making the playoff: The Wildcats have tended to cough up an early hairball or two under Chris Klieman before getting their act together, so one loss in Provo is not a disaster. And they don’t have to play Utah.The Syracuse Orange athletic director hired someone who had never been a solo coordinator, much less a head coach, in Fran Brown. That inexperience showed late in the Cuse’s upset home loss to the Stanford Cardinal on Friday night.
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