SportsPulse: College football insiders Paul Myerberg and Dan Wolken discuss what the committee got right and wrong in the second playoff reveal of the season. USA TODAY
Of the nine Power Five teams with fewer than two losses, only Alabama finds itself in the enviable position of having ample room for error.
No one — not even No. 2 Clemson — is so lucky. While on solid footing two weeks into November, the Tigers are not a lock for a top-four finish without another ACC championship. Likewise with the third Power Five unbeaten, Notre Dame, which can’t afford to lose one of its final three games of the regular season.