The selection committee has had it relatively easy this season, with No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Notre Dame and No. 4 MI owning the top, but the two most important, season-defining Saturdays remain: Rivalry week and conference championships. Of course a two-loss Georgia team and two-loss LSU team would give the committee fits as well.
Syracuse fell eight spots to No. 20 after losing to Notre Dame. The Knights jumped over Ohio State for the No. 9 spot - becoming the first Group of Five team to sit inside the top-10.
After that win, the Knights moved up three spots in the AP Top 25 poll to No. 8.
The Sooners have made the College Football Playoff in two out of the last three seasons and were just one possession away from winning a playoff semifinal a year ago in a double-overtime loss to Georgia.
West Virginia, which hosts the Sooners on Friday, dropped only four spots to No. 13 following last week's loss at Oklahoma State.
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He missed a nine-foot putt that, as Tiger Woods notes, is going to "hurt the wallet". "My heart just can't take much more of it". Trailing by one hole on No. 17, Tiger's tee shot made it look like Phil was going to wrap up the victory a hole early.
The Buckeyes needed overtime to get past Maryland last week.
Beat Ohio State and Northwestern to finish 12-1 and Big Ten champs: IN, unless the SEC has a surprise in store (see above). LSU remained seventh, Washington State held at 8 and Ohio State stayed at 10th. The victor of both games will play for the national title on January 7 inside of Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
Ok, it's mainly UCF Knights fans who claim they were unfairly left out of the playoffs past year after going undefeated, but they aren't the only ones. UCF 10. Ohio State 11.
The biggest complaint about these playoffs is only four teams are picked to get in. If Texas wins, it will face the victor of No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 13 West Virginia. Kentucky 16. Washington 17. The victor will play No. 18 Utah (8-3) in the Pacific-12 title game a week later. The less cynical would say UCF's schedule, not as rigorous as the other top teams, would deservedly keep the Knights out even if the alternative is teams that have lost two or even three games.
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