Life could get crazy this weekend for the College Football Playoff committee. If No. 1 Clemson or No. 2 Alabama were to lose their respective championship games and if Stanford were to beat USC decidedly, the committee could have a chance to show how important a conference championship really is in this age of college football.
Those are two big "if's," we realize. But it wouldn’t be the first time that the national perspective of teams was completely shaken up after single day of football.
And, if all this happens, here are a few things that Stanford has going for itself that the other schools in front of the Cardinal in the most recent rankings don’t: