As the third-ranked team in the country, Ohio State is very much an odds-on contender for this season’s College Football Playoff, but as far as I’m concerned, they aren’t the only contender from the Buckeye state. At 7-0, the No. 7 Cincinnati Bearcats should absolutely still be in the conversation when the committee convenes to try and make sense of this mess of a season; and I’m not just saying that because I picked them to be in the final four in our preseason predictions!
But here’s the thing, Luke Fickell’s team is still on the outside looking in, and I don’t know that anything that’s still to come on their schedule will make up the gap with one-loss teams like Clemson, Texas A&M, and Florida still ahead of them; of course, those rankings are from the AP poll, which ultimately means nothing once the CFP rankings are unveiled this coming Tuesday, Nov.