There are nine unbeatens left with a week until the first College Football Playoff rankings and five weeks left in the regular season. The tops teams are ever closer to CFP berths, but each has something that could cause them trouble.
The party continues. Nobody wants to leave. At this point last year, we were down to just six unbeaten college football teams. This year, even with North Carolina suffering a shock upset against Virginia, we've still got nine. Of the 10 conferences in FBS, eight still have a blemish-free team atop the standings.
Michigan has played an equally weak schedule but has very much looked the part. Ohio State and Florida State have been less dominant but have each scored a couple of lovely résumé-building wins. Oklahoma and Washington are somewhere in between from both dominance and résumé perspectives. Everyone has looked awesome at some point, but each team's Playoff portfolio is a bit different.
JMU's defense has grown increasingly dominant of late. The Dukes have allowed just 14 points per game in Sun Belt play, and neither Georgia Southern's passing game nor explosive Marshall backcould make a dent over the last two weeks.
A couple of nice, late drives from the offense and a late two-point stop salvaged a 31-29 win and kept a number of big miscues from proving too costly. In the second quarter alone, UCF ripped off a 54-yard run and passes of 23 and 86 yards, and in what was almost the game-tying drive in the final two minutes, the Knights completed a 39-yard pass to set up the TD. If this had happened to Georgia or some elite-for-years defense, we wouldn't have thought twice about it.
Against Duke on Saturday, the Noles were on the ropes again. They trailed 20-17 in the third quarter, and the Blue Devils were driving to go up two scores before quarterbackcame in, and the Noles made another key fourth-down stop, then hit the gas, outscoring their short-handed opponents 21-0 in the fourth quarter.
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