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Doomsday scenarios: Where your conference stands after Kickoff Week

After an epic Week 1 in which seven Associated Press-ranked teams lost -- the most in an opening weekend since the AP preseason poll debuted in 1950 -- it's time to re-evaluate the state of doom across college football.

Heading into the season, this space was the playoff dream crusher, presenting viable ways each Power 5 conference champion could be left out of the top four. Do the math: Four teams, five leagues and Notre Dame.

(Don't forget Houston!)

Somebody has to be left out. Maybe it's the SEC (gasp!). Or the Pac-12 (again).