Q: If you had a vote for the four teams to participate in a playoff, if the playoff system was used this season, what four teams would you pick?
A: Today with the records the way they are and there's still games left to be played, I do believe Alabama, I do believe Florida State and I do believe in Ohio State. I had them two weeks ago and their offense can play with anybody in the country. I don't know that their defense is an elite defense yet, but IO believe in Ohio State, I believe they're good. So I would put them in that four. And then the last one, I don't know. I believe in Baylor's system; we covered them last year when they upset Kansas State who was ranked No. 1 at the time. I like their process and their offense and I believe in that system but can they stop a big-time team with a big-time running back? I don't know that yet. I don't know who to put in that fourth spot.
Q: No Oregon? It's not a lock for you?
A: Not yet. Stanford this week - I wish I didn't know they were playing Stanford in (three) days, but they are, and Stanford is a rugged, difficult team who made it difficult for Oregon last year. I had Oregon's bowl game last year so I went back and watched the Stanford game, their only loss of the season, as how do you stop Oregon? Stanford knows how to stop them. They have a way - Oregon does a lot of their handoffs and a lot of their work and a lot of their tricky offense in this little pocket right behind where the quarterback is, in between the offensive line and the quarterback. What Stanford did was they collapsed that space and the offensive line gets pushed back into the space where Oregon likes to operate. And nobody else can do that to Oregon in the Pac 12, but Stanford can. And that disrupts all the timing and all the zone reads and stuff, so Oregon has to show me this week I guess.
