I told my daughter confidently that ASU were toast when they fell 16 points behind with eleven minutes to go. Fifteen minutes later she calls me back to say “Dad, your 0% record in sports prognostication is intact!”
Now it’s 3pm central time.
That was some finish! When the Texas kicker got a second shot at a Gimme, I said to myself there was no way he was going to miss two in a row…
And then it was off to overtime!
The Rose Bowl, on the other hand, is a Bucket of Fail at this point.
I think you made the assumption that both teams would actually show up. Oregon (currently trailing 34 - 0) has evidently not yet left the locker room.
Great, so Michigan defeats Ohio State and now we watch them obliterate the #1 team.
I assume this is a fluke, though. Oregon had a real schedule this year, right?
Beat Ohio State
Beat Boise State
Beat Penn State
Beat Illinois
all ranked teams
beat Michigan who beat Ohio State and Alabama.
Not an unusual schedule with plenty of opposition.
Oregon takes to the field at the end of the first half, scores two unanswered TDs, and now trails 34 - 15. Estimated probability of winning has gone from 2% to 7%.
And had the ball after holding Ohio State to a punt. Alas, Oregon State had to punt and Ohio State scored a quick TD. Now 41-15 with just over 10 minutes to play.
The first round was all chalk and the second round is a dog show (if Notre Dame beats Georgia).
Interesting.
By the seedings, yes. But Ohio State was favored over Oregon, Texas favored over Arizona State, and Penn State over Boise State.
I meant Oregon.
Have the Ducks ever won a big national game that mattered?
Oregon has played in 37 bowl games and has a overall bowl record of 17 wins and 20 losses, and their most common bowl opponent has been Ohio State, meeting a total of 4 times against the Buckeyes --from Wikipedia
As noted, they’ve won 17 bowl games. Over the past 25 years (since 2000, which is roughly when Phil Knight and Nike started seriously supporting them, and when they became a national powerhouse), they’ve won eleven bowl games, including the Rose Bowl twice, and the Fiesta Bowl three times. They’ve made it to the BCS championship game twice in the past 15 years, but lost both times.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, I gotta wonder the impacts of postponing a New Year’s Day Bowl game.
Tickets, hotels, flights, rental cars, missed working hours, TV… the list runs deep, I would imagine. I honestly don’t have the imagination to comprehend the disruption.
What a nightmare!
Great win by the Irish! 
Notre Dame wins the (terrorist-delayed) Sugar Bowl.
So in the first round, the higher-ranked team won every game; in the quarterfinals, the lower-ranked team did.
All four teams that had the first round bye are now out.
I wonder what the CFP Management Committee’s take on that will be?
At first, it was almost certainly:
“Well, we shouldn’t have given the top four conference champions byes; it should be the top four seeds. After all, that’s how every other college championship tournament does it.”
Now:
"Er, let’s not be too hasty about seeding the byes. Maybe the teams with the byes were just ‘match stale’ from the long layoff. There appear to be two ways to solve this:
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Get rid of byes by having 8 or 16 teams in the tournament. I wonder if Senator Tuberville is going to bring up the Alabama snub in the Senate?
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Move the games closer together. Moving the first round ahead doesn’t fix the problem of the teams with byes having a long break, and moving the quarter-finals back means the semi-finals will be played on 1/1, but in that case the Rose Bowl is going to demand that it always be a semi-final, and I don’t see the other bowls accepting that."
After their bowl loss this year, that would require extraordinary balls and he is, after all, an Auburn guy. 
There’s another option: leave it the hell alone, because it’s only the first year of the expanded playoffs, and nothing is going to be perfect either way.