With less than three weeks until Selection Sunday, a pair of teams have completely turned their seasons around and are in the at-large discussion despite significant early season struggles. It’s worth noting that the committee no longer places additional emphasis on the last 10 or 12 games, so the ugly losses they took early are still weighing them down. Still, with a weak bubble, Providence and UCLA are squarely in the mix.
The Friars lost at Northwestern in their third game of the season and proceeded to lose to Penn, Long Beach State, and Charleston over the course of seven days in November.