Bloodless Coup

Who'll Be in the Championship Game on January 8th?

For months and months all we've read about is how this is the most open and unpredictable year that college football has seen in a long time. Well, it looks like that's all changed over the last 8 days. Why do I say it's changed? Well, in the latest AP poll the top teams are Ohio St., Notre Dame, USC, Auburn and WVU. If you look at the schedules and the way the teams have looked so far, Ohio St. doesn't face a top foe until it closes out the season against Michigan. Notre Dame should win every game it plays prior to facing USC in late November. Auburn is (sadly for it) in the SEC and therefore will find it a much tougher thing to finish the season undefeated. WVU though is another team that looks like it only has one clear challenge this fall, Louisville (though Rutgers has certainly impressed some folks over the last two weeks). So really it already looks like we know who'll be in the championship, more or less - it'll be the USC/Notre Dame winner against Ohio St., or possibly WVU if Ohio St. falls. Right? I mean, yeah, of course you never know what's going to happen on a particular weekend, and maybe I've just been bored into faith in the expected given all of yesterday's blowouts, but ...