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Forde-Yard Dash: Assessing Each Candidate for the Fourth Playoff Spot

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (axes sold separately for a renewed chopping of wood in New Jersey):

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SECOND QUARTER

WHO’S NO. 4?

That is now the pressing question in the sport. The first three playoff spots seem very close to cemented: the SEC champion, the Big Ten champion and a 13–0 Clemson winning the Atlantic Coast Conference. The fourth spot? That’s something else entirely. A Dash appraisal of the candidates as they stand today:

Minnesota (11).