Including conference championships, there are only 4 weeks of games before bowl/playoffs. There is always chaos in November... despite virtual locks, invariably chaos ensues. My question to you, prescient reader, is what chaos should I expect? What "nail in the coffin" will there be that virtually derails a season? Top 10 teams losing badly, wild storylines, stuff like that...
Theoreticals:
- Baylor and OU; each team wins once or Baylor takes both thus forcing the committee to take the Big12 champ Baylor Bears over Bama
- OU beats Baylor twice to take the conf yet loses to TCU before December thus granting Bama safe passage to the January Bama Invitational
- Pac12 nadir: UCLA beats Utah and AZ beats the Ducks on the same day
- alt Pac12 nadir: AZ beats Utah and ASU beats Oregon on the same day
- alt al Pac 12 nadir: CU beats Utah and the Beavers beat the Ducks on rivalry day
- Auburn beats Bama by more than 5 / LSU margin
- Indiana beats PSU and TTUN in consecutive weeks even without Penix
- TAMU curbstomps UGa
- Wake beats Clemson
- South Carolina spoils again and beats Clemson
- Clemson loses ACC champ game
- Arkansas beats LSU: an unforgivable loss -- or is it, committee??
- Auburn beats Georgia and Bama in back to back weeks, earning an invite to playoffs despite not winning their division
- Iowa or Wisconsin beating Minnesota could be considered chaos at this point
- PSU or TTUN beats OSU or OSU loses B1G champ game
Please don't pick any of last item and be accurate. If I had to bet at least 1 of the above vs none, I'd take the list above honestly.