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Forde-Yard Dash: Which College Football Teams Can Overthrow The Usual Champions?

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where “last place in the SEC West” and “LSU” make for a strange pairing in the same sentence:

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THIRD QUARTER: CHANGE AT THE TOP

As we charge into the stretch of this season, there are a lot of fresh faces making bids to play in their conference championship games. That’s a good thing, in a sport that so often seems stuck on status quo. A Dash breakdown of which teams are in position to potentially overthrow the usual suspects, in order from the most upheaval to the least:

ACC (21): After winning another shootout, this time over North Carolina State, Wake Forest can clinch the ACC Atlantic by winning either of its final two games—at Clemson Saturday or at Boson College Nov.