Column: BYU, Cincinnati should play on Dec. 5, playoff committee should make it a quarterfinal game

Photo by Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesAs the third-ranked team in the country, Ohio State is very much an odds-on contender for this season’s College Football Playoff, but as far as I’m concerned, they aren’t the only contender from the Buckeye state. At 7-0, the No. 7 Cincinnati Bearcats should absolutely still be in the conversation when the committee convenes to try and make sense of this mess of a season; and I’m not just saying that because I picked them to be in the final four in our preseason predictions!

But here’s the thing, Luke Fickell’s team is still on the outside looking in, and I don’t know that anything that’s still to come on their schedule will make up the…