Winners and losers of college football's Week 8, via PaulMyerberg:
USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg and Dan Wolken break down the Michigan Wolverines season thus far.Laughed away as a contender for the national championship after losing by 46 points to No. 1 Georgia in the season opener, No. 9 Oregon is now in the thick of the College Football Playoff race after a 45-30 win against No. 10 UCLA that paints the Ducks as the class of the Pac-12.
With just one setback, and with that defeat coming against the defending national champions, Oregon will be in prime position to become the third Pac-12 team and the first since Washington in 2016 to reach the national semifinals.
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