This time last week, the College Football Playoff picture looked pretty tidy. Conveniently for the selection committee, there were four undefeated major-conference teams — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — a perfect fit for the all-important top four slots of the CFP rankings. And although chaos is always around the corner in college football, the […]
This time last week, the College Football Playoff picture looked pretty tidy. Conveniently for the selection committee, there were four undefeated major-conference teams — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — a perfect fit for the all-important top four slots of the CFP rankings. And although chaos is always around the corner in college football, the […]
Things have been relatively easy for the College Football Playoff committee so far this season. There are four remaining undefeated major-conference schools — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — which slide neatly into the top four slots of the rankings. Meanwhile, a couple of dominant one-loss teams — Ohio State and Louisville — wait in […]
Things have been relatively easy for the College Football Playoff committee so far this season. There are four remaining undefeated major-conference schools — Alabama, Clemson, Michigan and Washington — which slide neatly into the top four slots of the rankings. Meanwhile, a couple of dominant one-loss teams — Ohio State and Louisville — wait in […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Nov. 8 , 2016), we chat about Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and wonder if the numbers can tell us anything about whether the Cowboys should start Tony Romo when he is healthy again. Then we preview FiveThirtyEight’s college football […]
