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 fan bases that 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.Forget the usual tropes about drug busts and alligator hijinks.
Poor Napier hasn’t even hit any high points like his immediate predecessors. It’s been bad from the start.. Speaking of things going to hell in a hurry, Panhandle Florida Man’s Florida State Seminoles have completely cratered since Selection Sunday 2023.
That follows the Michigan Wolverines being thumped in Ann Arbor, Mich., by the Texas Longhorns; the Iowa Hawkeyes blowing a lead in Iowa City to the Iowa State Cyclones; the Minnesota Gophers losing in Minneapolis to the North Carolina Tar Heels; and the Northwestern Wildcats falling in overtime in Evanston, Ill., to the Duke Blue Devils.
Notre Dame’s chances of making the playoff: If they get to 11–1 with bookend road wins over Texas A&M and USC, the Irish might make it. At 10–2 with a MAC loss, it gets iffy. The evaporation of Florida State as a potential quality win could be a factor.With a 17–0 home lead on LSU, South Carolina was well on its way to 3–0, 2–0 in the SEC. Then things started happening. The Gamecocks defense was gouged. Starting quarterback LaNorris Sellers was injured.
Washington’s chances of making the playoff: Going, going … This season looked like a major rebuild to begin with, and it still looks that way now. Except maybe worse. There are many losses to come.The duel between the Big 12 and ACC for multiple CFP bids is tilting away from Charlotte and toward Dallas early, if you look at the. The Utah Utes are in the top 10, while the Miami Hurricanes are not . Three more Big 12 teams are ranked , compared to two for the ACC .
That dud follows UCLA’s narrow win over the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in the opener, which did nothing to assuage concerns that new head coach Deshaun Foster might not be ready for the job.
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