Urban Meyer: College Football Playoff committee has work cut out with 1-loss teams

As we get closer and closer to the College Football Playoff, the top candidates are making it harder and harder to separate themselves from one another. The biggest question to many, though, including Urban Meyer, is how things play out with the trio of one-loss options from six through eight.

Meyer discussed the latest playoff rankings during an episode of ‘Urban’s Take’ with Tim May. He sees that as a major issue for the committee members at this moment. Even so, it’s also one that, in the end, the undefeated teams might solve for them by remaining unblemished.

“This committee has got a job to do,” said Meyer.

“When you start talking about one-loss teams? That’s what it’s going to come down to – the undefeated teams are going to get in,” Meyer explained. “Georgia might make it through undefeated. Obviously – I call it the slash – as either the Wolverines or the Buckeyes should make it out undefeated. What happens to that next group, the one-loss teams?”

As of now, Oregon, Texas, and Alabama all sit at 9-1 on the season. Each of their losses are respectable too with them all having lost to top competition at the time. They will also all, in all likelihood, get an opportunity to make a statement in their conference championships with the Ducks and Longhorns still needing to clinch.

With that said, Meyer made a specific note of Oregon, who currently sits at No. 6. To him, the Ducks are certainly a playoff caliber group and would have to be in assuming that they knock off Washington in their expected matchup in Pac-12 Championship.

“I personally think Oregon is one of the best teams in the country,” said Meyer. “I know they have a loss so you can’t put them ahead of the undefeateds.”

“Oregon, right now on tape, is one of the best four teams in the country,” Meyer said. “I know they lost, they’ve got to take care of business. But I predict that they’ll be in the playoff.

Again, this argument might not amount to much in the end. Georgia, Florida State, Washington, and the winner of Michigan vs. Ohio State could each finish without a loss and with conference crowns to take all the drama out of the race.

Even so, with three opportunities left, there’s a chance that at least one, if not all, of Oregon, Texas, and Alabama could make things very tough on the playoff committee according to Meyer.