By Justin Parmer
What a letdown this weekend. There were many teams who nearly bit the dust but all of whom escaped the elimination for another week. Yet, despite the lack of teams dropping, we are now to on 12 teams with a shot at the college football playoffs. Oh yeah, and all of the Group of five teams have losses meaning that the eliminator doesn’t have to bother with a dead team coming back into the playoff picture. KCOU Sports’ Justin Parmer dives into the specifics of who made it out alive.
Regular Season Elimination Method
Power-five Method
- Losing two games
- Losing to a group-of-five school
- Losing to an FCS school or lower
- Losing a game by 30 or more points.
Teams remaining safe (7)
ACC (1)
Clemson
Big Ten (3)
Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State
Big 12 (1)
Baylor
SEC (2)
Alabama, LSU
On the brink of elimination (5)
Georgia (7-1)
The dogs of Georgia are very much alive. Despite an impressive comeback by the Gators to make this game look competitive, they were no match against Kirby and crew. With their impressive 24-17 victory in Jacksonville, Georgia has it’s second major win of the season and once again in control their destiny. Yet that isn’t to say the Gamecock of doom that made them lose two levels won’t come back to haunt them later.
The bulldogs will have to play three over .500 teams within the next month. One team that is extremely overrated team that has yet to win a road game all year long, a team plagued with the second toughest schedule in college football, and Auburn. Should the Bulldogs drop any of these games, the idea of Georgia making the playoffs goes out the window.
Oklahoma (7-1)
No changes. Bye week.
Oregon (8-1)
They had us in the quarter half, not goanna lie. Oregon appeared to have done their history homework over the week as the Ducks imitated the Trojan horse strategy. What happened after nightfall was the exact same thing that USC’s Trojan counterparts endured 3000 years ago.
With the Trojans secured, the Ducks not only put themselves in the final 12 on the eliminators list of teams eligible for the College Football Playoffs, will be safe from the eliminator’s clutches in week 11 thanks to their second bye week. Safe to say, the Ducks are looking to go all of the way.
Utah (8-1)
Playing at Washington is no easy task. The risk of the Utes getting trapped on the road, was a very plausible outcome going into Saturday’s game. For a while it seemed like Utah was destined too fall and get themselves eliminated. Luckily for the Utes, their playoff hopes are very much still alive. The Utes have set themselves up in a very favorable position.
Like Oregon, the Utes will get to go through an action pack week 11 safe on the bubble. However, unlike Oregon, Utah has a 72.3% of running the rest of their schedule unmarked according to ESPN’s Football Power Index. And until proven wrong, the eliminator doesn’t see Utah leaving the cutline prior to December 6th.
Wake Forest (7-1)
The eliminator thought the Wolfpack was going to make this a competitive game Wake Forest might not escape. What the eliminator got instead, was a statement win. The 34-point blowout couldn’t have come at a better time either. With the committees first vote this week, the Demon Deacons sent a clear message to the voting committee: we still belong in the conversation. Now it’s a question of, what will become Wake Forest in the votes this week.
Even if the committee decides to low ball Wake Forest, they’ll have two golden opportunities to impress the committee again. A road game at Virginia Tech and a road game at Clemson will be Wake’s true test if they are to make it to the playoffs or a New Year Six bowl game.
Eliminated (1)
Florida
Method of elimination: Two Losses
Florida really had no chance to begin with. Although there was hope in Jacksonville, Georgia proved too be the alpha dog in the SEC East, by beating the Gatos in Jacksonville. Yes, the referees were terrible in this affair, but both sides got refballed equally. If we are to be fair to Florida though, they put up one heck of a fight.
Florida has went from one of the most overrated teams in the country, to a true threat for the SEC in throughout the course of the season. And they have done this all in huge part thanks to junior backup quarterback Kyle Trask taking over the starting job.
Despite the loss, Florida is still in contention for the SEC East. With the Bulldogs still having to go through Auburn, Florida can take advantage of the Bulldogs with a SEC soft schedule. And with losses to two top 10 teams on the road or at neutral sites, there is a potential to see a zombie Gator should they make the SEC Championship game. But for now, the Gators are cooked.
Total number of teams Eliminated: 118
Remaining Teams Games
The following are between teams that still have a shot at making the college football playoffs. Here are the elimination games for week eleven. All times are eastern standard time.
Nov. 9 No. 1. LSU vs No. 2. Alabama
Nov. 9 No. 5. Penn State vs No. 13. Minnesota
Elimination games
The following games are elimination games, because no matter who wins, one team will meet a criteria that will deem them unworthy of entering the college football playoffs. Here are the elimination games for week eleven. All times are eastern standard time.
Previously Eliminated
Week 9
Wisconsin (Big Ten)
Auburn (SEC)
Notre Dame (Independent)
Week 8
Michigan (Big Ten)
Arizona State (PAC 12)
Week 7
Virginia (ACC)
Iowa (Big Ten)
Texas (Big 12)
Week 6
Michigan State (Big Ten)
Kansas State (Big 12)
Oklahoma State (Big 12)
California (PAC 12)
Washington (PAC 12)
Week 5
Boston College (ACC)
North Carolina State (ACC)
Virginia Tech (ACC)
Nebraska (Big Ten)
Iowa State (Big 12)
Texas Tech (Big 12)
Washington State (PAC 12)
Mississippi State
Week 4
Navy (AAC)
Louisville (ACC)
North Carolina (ACC)
Northwestern (Big Ten)
TCU (Big 12)
Arkansas (SEC)
Kentucky (SEC)
Texas A&M (SEC)
Week 3:
Pittsburgh (ACC)
Illinois (Big 10)
Indiana (Big 10)
Maryland (Big 10)
Colorado (PAC 12)
USC (PAC 12)
Stanford (PAC 12)
South Carolina (SEC)
Week 2:
Cincinnati (AAC)
Tulane (AAC)
Miami (ACC)
Syracuse (ACC)
Rutgers (Big Ten)
Kansas (Big 12)
Oregon State (Big 12)
West Virginia (Big 12)
Northern Illinois (MAC)
Western Michigan (MAC)
Vanderbilt (SEC)
Week 1:
Houston (AAC)
Duke (ACC)
Florida State (ACC)
Georgia Tech (ACC)
Purdue (Big 10)
FAU (Conference USA)
Middle Tennessee (Conference USA)
Kent State (MAC)
Miami (OH) (MAC)
Mississippi (SEC)
Tennessee (SEC)
UCLA (Pac 12)
Week zero:
Arizona (Pac 12)
Preseason:
Connecticut (AAC)
East Carolina (AAC)
Memphis (AAC)
SMU(AAC)
Temple (AAC)
UCF(AAC)
Alabama-Birmingham (Conference USA)
Charlotte (Conference USA)
Florida International (Conference USA)
Louisiana Tech (Conference USA)
Marshall (Conference USA)
North Texas (Conference USA)
Rice (Conference USA)
Southern Mississippi (Conference USA)
Texas San-Antonio (Conference USA)
Western Kentucky (Conference USA)
Akron (MAC)
Ball State (MAC)
Bowling Green (MAC)
Buffalo (MAC)
Central Michigan (MAC)
Eastern Michigan (MAC)
Ohio (MAC)
Toledo (MAC)
Air Force (Mountain West)
Boise State (Mountain West)
Colorado State (Mountain West)
Fresno State (Mountain West)
Hawaii (Mountain West)
Nevada (Mountain West)
New Mexico State (Mountain West)
San Jose State (Mountain West)
UNLV (Mountain West)
Utah State (Mountain West)
Wyoming (Mountain West)
Missouri (SEC)*
Appalachian State (Sun Belt)
Arkansas State (Sun Belt)
Coastal Carolina (Sun Belt)
Georgia State (Sun Belt)
Georgia Southern (Sun Belt)
Louisiana (Sun Belt)
Louisiana Monroe (Sun Belt)
South Alabama (Sun Belt)
Troy (Sun Belt)
Texas State (Sun Belt)
Army (Independent)
BYU (Independent)
Liberty (Independent)
New Mexico State (Independent)
UMass (Independent)
*Missouri is bowl ineligible but is currently in the appeals process.
Edited by Garrett Jones | [email protected]