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College Football Watch Guide - Championship Week

I’ve crunched all the numbers and it just doesn’t check out.

I’ve run the figures and formulae through the world’s most advanced supercomputers, consulted the most brilliant mathematical minds, and journeyed to remote mountain shrines to ask the wisest of sages. The answers were not encouraging.

Iowa is not going to make the College Football Playoff this year.

Okay, so this wasn’t Iowa’s year. However, this week we did get one step closer to determining just who will be left standing once the smoke clears at the end of this week. Things were looking pretty solid for three of the previous top four teams, but with Michigan grabbing Ohio State by the buckeyes in the second half of The Game last Saturday it was clear which team was going to be on the outside looking in.