Michigan remains 3, WMU jumped by Houston

Even after the loss to unranked Penn State, the quarterback insisted no big changes were necessary and the offense was on track.

The final edition of the College Football Playoff rankings will be unveiled on December 6.

On one side, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, a Buckeye by birth who was mentored by Hayes’ successor in Columbus.

No. 5 Washington remains in the hunt but faces a challenge in the Apple Cup against No. 23 Washington State. Four of the top seven teams in this week’s rankings are from the Big Ten, including No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 MI, who square off Saturday in Columbus (noon ET, ABC/ESPN App). Washington is No. 5.

Selection committee chairman Kirby Hocutt conceded that two teams from the same conference in the playoff “is a possibility, but we don’t speculate on those kind of scenarios”. O’Korn transferred to MI previous year after starting 16 games at Houston over his freshman and sophomore seasons. “We do not”, Hocutt said on a conference call.

Will No. 3 MI and No. 2 Ohio State live up to the hype of their physical rivalry when they meet up Saturday at Noon ET?

It is easy to imagine that if Oklahoma State had won that game, no matter how ugly it may have been, they would now be ranked either fifth or sixth. Ohio State and MI were each 6-6-1 against each other with each team scoring exactly 176 points over those 13 games.

Ohio State: Needs to beat Michigan and for Penn State to lose to Michigan State.

“There’s no question he has intensified the rivalry”, said two-time Heisman Trophy victor Archie Griffin, who never lost a game to MI in his four years of service for Hayes during the 10-year War. Opposing either MI or Penn State could be No. 6 Wisconsin if the Badgers (9-2) can beat Minnesota (8-3) for the 13th straight season. I think Washington is the most likely non Big Ten team to lose, and I think they will.

Hocutt pretty much dashed that theory, however, when he downplayed the significance of a conference title and head-to-head result. Both teams have been among the best in the country all season, and this years incarnation of “The Game” promises to be one of the most competitive in a long time. Cashman began the season playing mostly on special teams.

Ohio State’s largest margin of victory in the series is 38-0 in 1935.

Not only would a win send UW to the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis next week, but it could move the team one victory from a potential berth in the College Football Playoff.

The Huskies are 10-1. They will even have the SEC Championship game to improve on their ranking if they drop. Frankly, it is surprising that Ohio State didn’t fall a spot to No. 3.

Big 12: West Virginia beat Iowa State and are 9-3, Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma to win the Big 12; Cowboys are 10-2, Sooners are 9-3.

Harbaugh has been hailed for coming back to the school where he was a star quarterback and guaranteed a win over the rival Buckeyes in 1986, backing it up with a win.

Penn State would have won the nation’s toughest conference. That one could be fun, although Clemson will again be favored. A loss would certainly knock them out of the top four, but they could theoretically make up for it by winning big in the ACC Championship.

As for this weekend’s games, Penn State finds itself in a unusual situation where its future depends heavily on another contest that will be played directly before the Lions kick off.

Some people at Ohio State find it amusing to try to cover up every “M” on campus the week of the Michigan game, but an “M” that was never placed might actually affect the outcome of Saturday’s OSU-Michigan game.

James Franklin always has a singular focus with his own team, but he did acknowledge Tuesday that he will talk to his players about what’s at stake in the earlier game.

We’ll go with No. 16 Nebraska. Still, the Tigers are 24-point favorites, so we shouldn’t overstate how good of a game this could be. “He was really upset with me not going, but at same time he was happy. They’ll be aware of it”. Oklahoma State would only have a loss at Baylor, and that loss to Central Michigan. The Utes play Colorado Saturday. “That’s the important thing”.

A win over Michigan State gives Penn State a 10-win season and sets the table for an appearance in either the Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl or the Orange Bowl should the Wolverines beat Ohio State.

“I want to say I was in middle school, but Glenville High School actually opened it up, opened up the gym area and had projectors showing the game throughout the gym”, Worley said. “But it’s 2016, media, you can see the scoreboards and everything”.

“It’s just going in with a mindset, having all of the confidence in the world that you can do it”, Scott said. “I don’t know. I just don’t know”. “You prepare the best way that you can so you can remember it the right way the rest of your life. We wish that we could have came together at the beginning of the year more than at the end, but we were young, it takes time”.