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Top 10: Oregon’s Loss Opens Door the for Alabama, Oklahoma in CFP Picture

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

Things were going so smoothly on this Week 13 of college football’s 150 season. Favorites were winning, playoff contenders were mostly cruising and our Top 10 was, for the first time this season, headed for an unaltered version from one week to the next.

Enter #Pac12AfterDark.

Arizona State and its true freshman quarterback Jayden Daniels snapped a four-game losing streak by shocking Oregon, torpedoing the Ducks’ playoff chances and moving everyone up a spot in the pecking order—the two biggest beneficiaries Alabama and Oklahoma. Sure, there were some other close calls.