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Best- and Worst-Case College Football Playoff Scenarios

When your head hit the pillow last Saturday night, you were probably exhausted from a Saturday that saw three of the top four and five of the top 10 teams in the nation fall.

You thought the playoff picture would be blurry, messy and impossible for the selection committee to sort through.

In the end, the three upsets to the top four teams—No. 2 Clemson (to Pitt), No. 3 Michigan (to Iowa) and No. 4 Washington (to USC)—didn't do all that much to the rankings. Clemson and Michigan maintained their spots in the top four this week, and Washington held on to the sixth spot as a one-loss Power Five team that controls its own conference championship destiny.