Each week during the season, the USA TODAY Sports college staff (Jace Evans, Paul Myerberg, George Schroeder, Erick Smith and Eddie Timanus) will provide their answers to on an intriguing question from college football.
The picture for the College Football Playoff appears to be clearing up. If, as expected, both Alabama and Clemson win their conference title games, there would be one spot left for either Oklahoma or Ohio State. But who should get in if both the Sooners and Buckeyes lost in their conference title games?
Jace Evans
If chaos strikes, resulting in a two-loss team snagging the final playoff bid, the squad that should get it is Georgia – assuming the Bulldogs don’t get completely blown off the field in their own backyard. While this might seem like the simple answer given Georgia is currently No. 4 in the College Football Playoff rankings, it’s hard to see how the Bulldogs wouldn’t get in given their resume. In this scenario their only losses would be to the committee’s No. 1 team at a neutral site and the No. 10 team in LSU, which was one of the wildest games of all time away from finishing 10-2. With no other conference champions worthy, a Georgia team that proves once again it could hang with Alabama should get the nod over a team that in this case would have lost to a solid but unspectacular Texas squad twice (Oklahoma) and a team that was inconsistent for the second half of the year and then lost the Big Ten championship to Northwestern (Ohio State). As for Michigan, being the team that got humiliated by the team that then lost the conference championship probably wouldn’t look too good in the eyes of the committee.
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