In the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the 5-12 matchup is the seat of peril, the dreaded trap game that seems to claim one March Madness hopeful every year while crowning a potential Cinderella.
It doesn't work that way in NCAA football. Oregon earned the No. 5 seed in the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings, which means they would host the highest-ranked Group of Five Champion in a first-round game at Autzen Stadium on December 19 or 20.
The winner of that game would currently face Texas Tech, although Saturday's Championship Week games could shake up the bracket, potentially in unpredictable ways.