This is not the year a two-loss team makes the College Football Playoff — and even one-loss Washington faces long odds.
The one-loss Huskies stand as the Pac-12’s only reasonable hope for a berth to the College Football Playoff, and their path opened incrementally with the carnage in the Big Ten East over the weekend.
There are several steps of varying likelihood remaining, over and above UW running the table, and one of those steps moves into the spotlight this week: Notre Dame, which visits undefeated Miami, needs another loss.
Problem is, an Irish loss Saturday would increase the chances of zero-loss Miami meeting one-loss Clemson for the ACC title.