Championship weekend in college football produced highs and lows for several teams. A look at the winners and losers from Week 14.
The overtime loss might give Duggan the edge over Caleb Williams in the Heisman Trophy race. He finished with 251 passing yards, 110 rushing yards and two scores, and led one of the memorable drives in program history, an 80-yard march lasting three minutes to knot the game at 28-28 with just under two minutes remaining.
While Alabama and the SEC will advocate for the Crimson Tide, that the Frogs lost in overtime to one of the best teams in the country — a team they had defeated earlier in the regular season — should bring some calmness and clarity back to a race that threatened to devolve into complete anarchy at the doorstep of the final rankings.
If not officially eliminated from contention — as has been predicted dozens of times since November's loss to No. 13 LSU — Alabama still doesn't have the resume to match with TCU, which wins the argument across four important categories:The Tide five wins against bowl-eligible opponents. TCU has eight.Alabama's best win is probably against Texas, edging out Mississippi and No. 25 Mississippi State. That's trumped by the Frogs' win against Kansas State.
The debate over the fourth playoff team should instead focus on USC and OSU, with the Buckeyes poised to backdoor into the semifinals for a likely rematch with No. 2 Michigan as the third seed. But the committee has been given the option of reevaluating Alabama as an option; anything and everything is possible once the Crimson Tide enter this conversation.
The Horned Frogs and Wildcats are front and center for the final winners and losers of the regular season:No. 2 Michigan will sail into the playoff as the second seed after taking apart Purdue in the Big Ten championship game. Without running back Blake Corum, out for the rest of the year with an injury, the Wolverines leaned on Donovan Edwards, who ran for 185 yards and a score after setting a new career high with 216 yards in the win against No. 5 Ohio State.
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