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Jenni Carlson
10/4/2014, 11:50 PM
Our chances of seeing the inaugural College Football Playoff filled with undefeated teams have gone down dramatically. And a playoff with one or more teams with losses is going to be complicated to fill. Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma and Texas A&M, four of the top six teams in the AP poll, all lost in Week 6. It's only the second time in the history of the AP poll that four of the top six teams have lost on the same weekend. The other time was 1990, when No. 1 Virginia, No. 3 Nebraska, No. 4 Auburn and No. 5 Illinois lost in Week 11. The Crimson Tide, Oregon and Oklahoma were all the prohibitive favorites in their conferences to open the season. And while each of the three conferences features at least one undefeated team, the Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC are the three toughest conference in the country. Given what we saw over the weekend, can we realistically expect an undefeated team to emerge from each? If we don't, it creates a dilemma for the Playoff committee. If Baylor loses to Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., and both teams finish with a loss, do the Sooners get the edge because of the head-to-head matchup and its preseason ranking even though Baylor beat TCU, the team that beat Oklahoma Saturday?

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