Uncover the Dark Horses Poised to Upset the College Football Playoff Semifinals
The rest of the playoff would feel like an OSU coronation if the whole world hadn’t just seen this team inexplicably flop a few weeks ago. The Buckeyes will first need to win a College Football Playoff semifinal game in the Cotton Bowl against a Texas program that looked very gettable in a quarterfinal escape against Arizona State and has a wide range of offensive line health problems. Yet as vulnerable as Texas is, the Longhorns have the defensive line to beat anybody on the right day.
Elsewhere, Notre Dame and Penn State will put on a slugfest at the Orange Bowl. The Nittany Lions played quite well in taking care of business against two lesser opponents, SMU and Boise State, in the first two rounds. Notre Dame will be a different kind of test after it moved past Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, representing the chance for James Franklin to shed the “can’t beat the heavyweights” label that has been his primary shortcoming in Happy Valley.


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