CFP Shockers: Which Underdog Could Rewrite Playoff History This Year?
Last year’s team was undone in a Rose Bowl blowout against Ohio State. The Ducks’ biggest weakness in that game, among many, was an inability to stop the Buckeyes’ vertical passing game to Jeremiah Smith and Emeka Egbuka.
An off-season transfer pickup of Purdue’s Dillon Thieneman, an All-American safety, has mitigated that problem this time around.
And with quarterback Dante Moore leading the way, they’re pretty good on the other side of the ball. The Ducks enter the CFP fifth in the FBS in offensive TRACR (Team Rating Adjusted for Conference and Roster), which is a net efficiency metric that measures how good a team is at every play relative to the quality of its opponent.

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