Which Big Ten team actually is the most likely to make the playoff?

10/06/21 • 67 min

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take a break from examining the best current teams in college football and instead project which current contenders have the best chance to actually make The College Football Playoff at the end of the season.

But first, a team needs to be added to the list of contenders, and a team needs to be kicked out.

Does Michigan, Wake Forest or BYU most deserve a spot in the discussion, with all of them still undefeated? BYU is in a similar boat as Cincinnati, Wake Forest is the only undefeated team in the ACC, and Michigan would make the fourth Big Ten team in the discussion if the Wolverines are added in.

And then it's time to remove a contender. Four teams in the discussion lost last week -- Ole Miss, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Oregon. So who's out?

In ranking the contenders by their playoff chances, Doug and Shehan disagreed about the Big Ten teams, especially with the Penn State-Iowa game on the horizon Saturday. Who will win that game? How does Iowa's better defense match up with Penn State's more dynamic offense? Is Ohio State actually still the best team in the conference despite its loss.? How will the round-robin between Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State shake out?

And in the Big 12, Oklahoma has looked ready to lose almost every week. Could Bijan Robinson and Texas deliver that loss on Saturday?

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But first, a team needs to be added to the list of contenders, and a team needs to be kicked out.

And then it's time to remove a contender. Four teams in the discussion lost last week -- Ole Miss, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Oregon. So who's out?

And in the Big 12, Oklahoma has looked ready to lose almost every week. Could Bijan Robinson and Texas deliver that loss on Saturday?

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Previous Episode

How Ole Miss could upset Alabama and add to college football's chaos

On this big Wednesday edition of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are joined by Ben Garrett of The Talk of Champions podcast about Ole Miss football to discuss what the Rebels will have to do to knock off defending national champion Alabama this week. Quarterback Matt Corral and head coach Lake Kiffin might be the right combination to upset the Crimson Tide and add to what has been a wild first month of the season.

Before Ben jumped on, Doug and Shehan opened with their usual Wednesday plan: Are there any new teams worthy of joining the playoff discussion this week? The nominees were Florida, Arkansas, Notre Dame and Baylor.

Then after Ben's appearance, Doug and Shehan ranked their contenders. There were pretty big disagreements about Iowa, with varying views on Ole Miss, Penn State and Cincinnati, Georgia and Alabama as well. But the continued struggles of Oklahoma? Doug and Shehan agreed on that.

The episode concluded, as usual, with kicking a team out of the playoff discussion. The choices this week were two teams coming off losses: Clemson and Texas A&M.

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What are the chances that Alabama loses again after the Texas A&M upset?

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah continue to analyze the playoff contenders following another wild weekend that included Texas A&M's upset of Alabama that Doug maybe kind of sort of thought could happen. But could it happen again? Is there any other real threat on the Tide's regular-season schedule?

The guys also welcome one new team to the playoff discussion -- either Wake Forest, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Michigan State or Oklahoma State.

There's a debate over what Iowa's win over Penn State really told us.

Questions about Cincinnati as a legit contender are answered by asking if Cincinnati might not be the team with the best chance to beat Georgia.

Doug insists on including talk about Ole Miss and the Rebels' path to true playoff contention again.

And is Oregon truly on trouble, or are the Ducks about to get it together again?

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