Can a Pac-12 Team Make Playoffs? Examining Washington vs. Oregon

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Elsewhere DRS in the Pac-12.

00:05 It can be cannibalistic at times.

00:07 It's one of the reasons the Pac-12

00:08 hasn't made the college football playoff

00:10 since the 2016 college football season.

00:13 An unbeaten 13th Washington State

00:16 on the road in the Rose Bowl on Saturday afternoon

00:19 gets their first loss of the year handed to them by UCLA.

00:23 25-17 the final DRS.

00:25 Now, as you look around the Pac-12

00:27 with Washington and Oregon playing each other

00:30 this upcoming weekend,

00:31 there are three remaining unbeatens.

00:33 USC, who doesn't look all that good the last three weeks,

00:36 and Washington and Oregon.

00:38 One will be handed its first loss of the year,

00:41 the Pac-12 in its final year of existence.

00:43 DRS, seven teams ranked in the top 20,

00:46 but how many will have a chance

00:47 of making the college football playoff?

00:49 - Yeah, exactly.

00:50 It's gonna be tough.

00:51 Not one of those, you know,

00:52 two teams at the top of the division,

00:53 as you might look at the Big Ten at this point

00:54 and say, "Okay, Michigan, Ohio State,

00:56 "they're probably gonna be penciled in

00:57 "to possibly playing for a national championship."

00:59 That's not the case in the Pac-12.

01:00 And in the final year of the Pac-12,

01:02 it's a shame that this might be their best year in decades

01:05 from top to bottom,

01:06 and they're gonna split up.

01:07 By the way, in this game,

01:08 shout out to Kelly for going back to some 1980s football

01:11 with a Bell Cow running back.

01:12 Carson Steele, 30 carries, 140 yards in that game.

01:16 25-17 win.

01:18 Big win there in the Rose Bowl for UCLA.

01:20 (upbeat music)

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