Everything we're excited for in bowl season

It's Selection Day and that means vessel play is rapidly upon america -- arguably the astir fantastic clip of the year.

With Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State slated for the College Football Playoff, the remainder of the vessel docket is set. Before we get into what we're astir looking guardant to this postseason extracurricular of the semis and nationalist title, we've got 1 last Anger Index connected who should beryllium astir upset astatine this year's selections.

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The last 4 is set, and for the archetypal clip successful the past of the College Football Playoff, it doesn't see Alabama oregon Clemson. So, yeah, Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney mightiness beryllium a small upset today, but they're surely not the lone ones with a fewer gripes astir however the committee came up with its apical four.

For the past clip this season, here's who's aggravated astatine the committee this week.

1. USC Trojans (ranked 10th)

Perspective is simply a comic thing. If the lone speech is who has the amended record, past it makes consciousness to enactment Ohio State (11-1) up of USC (11-2). But look astatine the examination from different space and, well, the speech gets a small trickier.

USC has mislaid to 1 team. Ohio State has mislaid to 1 team.

USC mislaid its past crippled by 23 points. Ohio State mislaid its past crippled by 22 points.

USC and Ohio State person 1 hostile successful common: Notre Dame. The Trojans bushed a red-hot Notre Dame squad by 11 successful a crippled they controlled throughout. Ohio State bushed a work-in-progress Notre Dame squad successful the play opener by 11 successful a crippled that was adjacent until precocious successful the 4th quarter.

Oh, and USC plays successful a league that finished with six ranked teams (all successful the apical 18). The Big Ten has three.

And then, of course, there's this: A week ago, USC was successful the apical 4 and Ohio State was not. By virtuousness of its ain success, USC had to play different game, portion Ohio State sat home. And the crushed for that? Just a quirk of assemblage football's advertisement hoc systems, whereby the Big Ten plays with divisions and the Pac-12 doesn't. As a result, USC had to spell up successful a rematch with Utah. Ohio State was the second-best squad successful the Big Ten, and without divisions, it would've had a rematch with Michigan, too. Instead, the Buckeyes got the week disconnected portion Michigan played unranked Purdue for the league title.

To think, too, that if Oregon hadn't blown a 31-10 pb to Oregon State, USC wouldn't person had to play Utah again successful that Pac-12 rubric game. If Washington hadn't blown a crippled against woeful Arizona State backmost successful aboriginal October, USC wouldn't person played Utah again either. There's nary warrant the results for the Trojans would've been immoderate amended against the Ducks oregon Huskies, but 1 information already successful grounds was that USC had already mislaid erstwhile to Utah. It was a atrocious matchup -- 1 made tougher erstwhile Caleb Williams got hurt.

In the end, the statement that Ohio State is simply a amended squad than USC is simply a just one. But it's inactive hard to swallow the logic that getting a accidental to play successful a league rubric crippled was a monolithic detriment for 1 team, and getting blown retired a week earlier was really a immense triumph for the other.

2. Georgia Bulldogs (ranked No. 1)

Hey Georgia, here's your reward for being the champion squad successful the state each season: You get a day with, arguably, the second-most talented squad successful the state successful the semifinal.

A speedy examination betwixt Ohio State and TCU:

Ohio State is No. 3 successful FPI. TCU is No. 10.

Ohio State is No. 3 successful SP+. TCU is No. 6.

Ohio State's past 4 recruiting classes ranked, connected average, sixth. TCU ranked 38th.

Ohio State is making its 5th playoff appearance. TCU is making its first.

It's true, of course, that Georgia wouldn't person been a shoo-in to bushed TCU, and the Bulldogs are the evident favourite implicit Ohio State, too. But the bottommost enactment is this is simply a acold tougher matchup for the No. 1 squad successful the state than TCU oregon USC oregon Tennessee oregon Clemson or, heck, adjacent Alabama might've been.

The Buckeyes' disfigured nonaccomplishment to Michigan successful the regular-season finale is the overwhelming storyline due to the fact that it happened astir recently, but arsenic committee president Boo Corrigan noted, the last people wasn't wholly indicative of however competitory Ohio State was for astir of the game, and there's a crushed the Buckeyes spent the bulk of the twelvemonth ranked among the apical 2 teams successful the country.

TCU is simply a large communicative this season. The Horned Frogs are perfectly deserving of the playoff berth. But we've seen capable assemblage shot implicit the years to cognize that, by the clip we get to December, the azygous biggest origin successful occurrence is talent, and there's a bully lawsuit to beryllium made that the 2 astir talented teams are gathering successful the semifinal, which is hardly a amusive gully for the Dawgs.

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Georgia caput manager Kirby Smart reacts to drafting Ohio State successful a College Football Playoff semifinal.

3. Alabama Crimson Tide (ranked fifth)

There's a batch of "yelling 'Don't you cognize who I am?' astatine the maitre'd erstwhile you can't get a table" vibes here, but ... don't you cognize who Nick Saban is? Sure, Alabama hasn't looked similar a playoff squad for overmuch of this season, but 2 losses connected the last play of the crippled marque this awfully hard to swallow for a programme that has much College Football Playoff wins than Georgia, Ohio State and Michigan combined.

4 (tie). Tennessee Volunteers (ranked sixth) and Clemson Tigers (ranked seventh)

Don't expect a Christmas paper this year, Shane Beamer. You ruined 2 superior playoff bids successful the last 2 weeks of the regular season. Couldn't you person conscionable phoned it successful similar LSU Tigers did? Oh, sure, possibly if Hendon Hooker doesn't get wounded oregon Dabo Swinney doesn't spite-start DJ Uiagalelei things are different, but we each cognize who the existent force is here, Beamer, and we're not going to hide it immoderate clip soon. Especially since they're going to beryllium reminded again and again successful the tally up to the Orange Bowl.

5. Washington Huskies (ranked 12th)

Let's bash a small unsighted resume to extremity the year.

Team A: 10-2, 2 wins implicit ranked opponents, some losses by a TD oregon less. Won past six games.

Team B: 10-2, 2 wins implicit ranked opponents, some losses by 14 oregon more. Lost 2 of past four.

Team A, of course, is Washington. Team B is Tennessee, the lone chaotic paper successful the New Year's Six. Was determination overmuch accidental of the Huskies truly being ranked up of the Vols? Funny, possibly Beamer and the Gamecocks made that happen, too. South Carolina's triumph implicit Clemson made that 2nd Tennessee nonaccomplishment look better, portion the Arizona State nonaccomplishment for Washington continues to look downright awful.

Given Tennessee's precocious stumbles and Hendon Hooker's injury, there's a bully lawsuit to beryllium made the Huskies are the acold much unsafe squad today. But they're connected the extracurricular looking successful -- conscionable arsenic they were for the Pac-12 rubric and hopes of a Rose Bowl -- due to the fact that they couldn't bushed Arizona Freakin' State.

-- David M. Hale

Roundtable

Our reporters interruption down what games they're astir looking guardant to and what teams and players person thing to beryllium this postseason.

Should the CFP committee person done thing differently?

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CFP enactment committee seat Boo Corrigan details the discussions that went into picking the teams for the playoff.

David M. Hale: The committee apt got it close successful selecting immoderate operation of the 4 champion oregon most-deserving teams, but it's inactive hard to swallow the conception that USC was punished for playing (and losing) a crippled Ohio State didn't person to play. If the Trojans could've simply opted retired of the Pac-12 rubric crippled a week ago, they'd beryllium successful the playoff. If the Big Ten didn't person divisions, Ohio State would've had a rematch with Michigan already and would've either earned its mode successful oregon been successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic USC. It's a relation of assemblage football's quirks that it comes down to thing truthful illogical, but successful the end, USC got exposed and Ohio State, for amended oregon worse, volition unrecorded to combat different day.

Chris Low: No substance what the committee did, it was going to beryllium criticized. But, yes, it looks similar the 4 astir deserving teams got in. The 4 best? That's up for debate. Just similar Roy Kramer, the godfather of the BCS, utilized to say, there's nary cleanable strategy to prime the teams, not with everybody playing antithetic schedules and successful antithetic conferences. Georgia and Michigan were locks. It's a bummer for USC it didn't get successful erstwhile it astir apt would person been a fastener had it not played successful the Pac-12 title game. But it mislaid to Utah ... doubly successful the aforesaid season. You could marque cases for Ohio State, Tennessee and Alabama -- astir apt successful that bid -- for the 4th spot. The Vols had amended wins, but were besides blown retired by South Carolina and mislaid starting backmost Hendon Hooker. Alabama, with a steadfast Bryce Young, is susceptible of being anybody, but mislaid 2 games connected the last play and won 2 games connected the last play. It was the eventual back-in occupation by the Buckeyes, who were hammered connected their location tract the last week of the regular season, but inactive managed to gaffe in.

Mark Schlabach: I deliberation the committee got the 4 teams precisely right, though I deliberation 1 could surely reason that Ohio State mightiness person deserved the No. 3 seed, aft TCU's overtime nonaccomplishment to Kansas State successful the Big 12 title game. I cognize the committee was astir apt trying to debar a Michigan-Ohio State rematch successful the Fiesta Bowl, but fixed however galore radical watched the regular-season showdown, I'm definite millions would person tuned successful again. Alabama made its argument, but the Tide person nary 1 to blasted but themselves. Penalties and turnovers outgo them successful their adjacent losses to Tennessee and LSU. The Tide are undoubtedly 1 of the 2 oregon 3 astir talented teams successful the FBS, but they didn't ever play similar it this season.

Blake Baumgartner: I'll concur with Mark. I cognize I decidedly considered flipping TCU and Ohio State successful our last unit CFP picks. I consciousness comfy saying the Buckeyes are a amended squad than the Horned Frogs. But Sonny Dykes' squad shouldn't beryllium penalized for playing successful a league title crippled that Ryan Day's squad failed to suffice for due to the fact that they couldn't bushed Michigan wrong the affable confines of the Horseshoe.

Alex Scarborough: Maybe I should halt listening the infinitesimal the rankings are revealed. Mostly I'm OK with the results, but t's erstwhile the committee seat comes connected and describes the rationale for their decisions that they suffer me. Ohio State is credited with keeping the crippled adjacent with Michigan for 3 quarters? What does that adjacent mean? They went connected to suffer astatine location by 3 touchdowns. Alabama mislaid 2 games connected the roadworthy connected the last play. I get that the seat has an intolerable job, but travel on.

Adam Rittenberg: I've agelong believed that the committee's toughest occupation is figuring retired the play rankings starring up to the last 1 - and justifying them. The existent CFP radical usually works itself out, and did again this season. Hale makes a just constituent astir USC, but unbalanced schedules besides helped the Trojans, who didn't person to look 2 of the league's champion teams (Oregon and Washington). The four-team CFP is designed not to reward the deeper leagues, and it's unfortunate the Pac-12 won't person a typical contempt being deeper than the 3 leagues that made the field.

Paolo Uggetti: It's hard to accidental so. In galore ways, the committee was handed a beauteous clear-cut apical four. And portion yes, I'd hold that USC got unfairly punished for playing and losing successful a league title (while TCU didn't), the Trojans had their accidental to beryllium they were a playoff-caliber squad and could not bash it. The statement betwixt astir deserving and champion teams is going to plague the committee until the playoff is expanded (and possibly adjacent then), but this season, there's small to nary uncertainty the 4 champion teams were besides the ones who deserved to play for the nationalist title.

Andrea Adelson: I person nary issues with what the committee did, though I deliberation it is simply a shame a squad that got housed astatine location by its rival got rewarded due to the fact that determination were nary different justifiable options. No, I americium not buying "the crippled was adjacent for 3 quarters." We saw however the full happening ended. Blame South Carolina. If Tennessee and/or Clemson had beaten the Gamecocks arsenic expected, I firmly judge the Top 4 would person looked different. But that is what makes the regular play a quasi-playoff unto itself.

What NY6 vessel crippled are you astir looking guardant to?

Hale: The Peach Bowl, and it's not truly close. For each the hand-wringing astir however Ohio State got here, the bottommost enactment is this: For the bulk of this season, we each assumed the 2 astir talented teams successful the state were Ohio State and Georgia. Now we'll get to spot them play. So, who wins it? The discourtesy with the Heisman caliber QB and the seemingly endless proviso of accomplishment presumption talent? Or the blue-collar bruisers with the ascendant defense? It's a cleanable matchup for the playoff, and it mightiness beryllium the champion semifinal crippled we've had since Georgia and Oklahoma went toe-to-toe successful the 2017 Rose Bowl.

Low: A distinctly orangish Capital One Orange Bowl would beryllium my choice. Clemson and Tennessee, with their 2 distinctly antithetic shades of orange, are lone astir 3 and a fractional hours distant from each other, but person met lone 3 times implicit the past 75 years. This is besides a accidental for some teams to instrumentality retired immoderate vexation (against each other) acknowledgment to a communal nemesis. Shane Beamer and South Carolina ruined some teams' playoff chances with wins against Tennessee and Clemson successful the last 2 weeks of the regular season.

Scarborough: I'm with Chris. I'm looking guardant to Tennessee-Clemson arsenic a sneak peek of each team's offenses adjacent season, specifically astatine quarterback. I mean, surely Dabo Swinney volition instrumentality with Cade Klubnik now, right? He flashed existent imaginable against North Carolina connected Saturday. And Joe Milton III could beryllium amusive replacing Hooker. Milton is beardown and fast, and helium has an implicit cannon for an arm.

Schlabach: Georgia and Ohio State seemed to beryllium connected a collision people each season. It's discourtesy vs. defense. The Big Ten vs. the SEC. Ryan Day vs. Kirby Smart. Bring it on. The Buckeyes' firepower connected discourtesy volition trial Georgia's defence successful a large way, particularly if OSU's tailbacks are healthy. Georgia's secondary has had immoderate problems against explosive receivers, and fewer teams are amended astatine that presumption than the Buckeyes. Georgia hasn't been arsenic accordant arsenic past season's title team, but it has risen to the juncture erstwhile it mattered most. I don't deliberation the CFP semifinal crippled volition beryllium immoderate different.

Baumgartner: I'm with Hale and Schlabach here: Georgia v. Ohio State successful the Peach Bowl. Most of the nationalist semifinals successful the College Football Playoff haven't been ... however bash I privation to accidental this? "Competitive." The Buckeyes are smarting from their fourth-quarter illness against the Wolverines Thanksgiving play and the Bulldogs privation to supplant the Crimson Tide arsenic the preeminent programme successful the sport. Ohio State's dynamic discourtesy against Georgia's stout defence is 1 hellhole of a nightcap connected New Year's Eve. You person to consciousness similar the Buckeyes coming down to the ATL to look disconnected with the defending nationalist champions has the consciousness and ingredients to supply each of america an instant classic.

Uggetti: It's casual to thin toward the shiny artifact that is Georgia-Ohio State, but I'm truly looking guardant to the Fiesta Bowl. Not lone volition the matchup determine the different finalist, but it's an arsenic large opposition successful styles. Michigan already proved it tin instrumentality down 1 high-powered discourtesy successful Ohio State, but TCU is riding its ain susceptible discourtesy arsenic good arsenic what feels similar a imagination play into this game. Nearly everything astir the matchup says Michigan should instrumentality attraction of business, but I wouldn't number retired the Hypnotoad conscionable yet.

Which vessel crippled extracurricular the NY6 are you astir looking guardant to?

Schlabach: The Alamo Bowl mightiness beryllium amusive to watch. If Texas manages to bushed Washington, we'll perceive erstwhile again astir however the Longhorns are back. I deliberation Steve Sarkisian does yet person Texas connected the close track, but there's a mode to spell earlier it is acceptable to vie successful the SEC. Huskies backmost Michael Penix Jr. is 1 of the much underrated players successful the country. He has thrown for much than 4,300 yards with 29 touchdowns, but you don't perceive arsenic overmuch astir him arsenic Bryce Young, C.J. Stroud, Caleb Williams and others.

Scarborough: LSU-Purdue successful the Vrbo Citrus Bowl could beryllium interesting. The Tigers outperformed expectations Year 1 nether Brian Kelly, but there's a batch of country for improvement. I'm funny to spot however they develop, particularly successful the passing game. Some different compelling matchups volition beryllium Notre Dame-South Carolina successful the TaxSlayer Bowl, Florida State-Oklahoma successful the Cheez-It Bowl and, lest we hide the all-time champion vessel celebration, I volition beryllium tuning successful to NC State-Maryland successful the Duke's Mayo Bowl.

Adelson: Speaking of the Duke's Mayo Bowl, this 1 rises to No. 1 connected the database if Ron Cherry tin beryllium the honorary crippled authoritative to commemorate the 15th day play of "Giving him the business," which helium said during a Maryland-NC State backmost erstwhile the Terps were successful the ACC. Perhaps Hale has immoderate connections. This is really 1 of the much "underrated" rivalry games mislaid to league realignment. In 70 games played, the teams are deadlocked astatine 33-33-4 and past played successful 2013 -- the Terps' last twelvemonth successful the ACC. There is 1 different rivalry crippled that returns -- Cincinnati vs. Louisville successful the Wasabi Fenway Bowl. How tin you not emotion a crippled featuring the Keg of Nails Trophy?

Rittenberg: I'll spell Group of 5 present and spell with the Cure Bowl, which matches Sun Belt champion Troy against Conference USA champion UTSA. Few first-year coaches did a amended occupation than Troy's Jon Sumrall, who won an progressively competitory league with a squad that embraced defence until its discourtesy began to rotation down the stretch. Sumrall and UTSA's Jeff Traylor some volition beryllium connected the radar for Power 5 jobs successful the adjacent future. Traylor has been exceptional for UTSA, which enters the vessel connected a 10-game triumph streak and boasts a must-see backmost successful Frank Harris. Part of maine would emotion to spot these teams instrumentality connected Power 5 opponents successful bowls, but they'll besides get a bully spotlight by sharing the tract successful Orlando.

Baumgartner: This Michigan State alum is inactive having nightmares implicit watching what Penix did to the Spartans backmost successful September. The chemistry Penix shares with Kalen DeBoer is real, and spearheaded 1 of the amended turnarounds this season. And the Huskies had a bully changeable astatine the Rose Bowl, if not for immoderate Pac-12 chaos during the regular season's last week. The Alamo Bowl volition beryllium an absorbing chess lucifer betwixt 2 large violative minds -- DeBoer and Steve Sarkisian.

What player/team has the astir to beryllium successful a bowl?

Hale: TCU. No 1 is amazed to spot Georgia, Michigan oregon Ohio State successful the College Football Playoff. Been there, done that. But TCU is simply a existent Cinderella, having opened the twelvemonth unranked and gotten present with a bid of frantic second-half comebacks. So, was TCU fortunate oregon really good? There's a bully lawsuit to beryllium made that this year's TCU is the astir improbable playoff squad ever, and portion that means the Horned Frogs won't transportation the value of dense expectations into their matchup with Michigan, it besides means there's an accidental to wholly change the communicative astir their play from 1 astir luck to 1 astir genuine skill.

Low: It's not that Stetson Bennett has a batch to prove, due to the fact that his communicative is 1 of the champion successful each of assemblage football. He goes from a walk-on to Georgia's starting backmost and the unquestioned person of that team. What the 25-year-old Bennett tin beryllium is that he's 1 of assemblage football's astir distinguished winners if helium tin pb Georgia to back-to-back nationalist titles.

Schlabach: It has to beryllium Ohio State's defense, right? The Buckeyes looked amended earlier they ran into the Wolverines, and they were tally implicit successful a 45-23 nonaccomplishment astatine the Horseshoe. Michigan had 530 yards of discourtesy -- 278 passing and 252 rushing. The Wolverines threw implicit the apical and ran done the Buckeyes. Georgia's defence gets each of the attention, but the Bulldogs are susceptible of putting up a clump of points. They mightiness beryllium adjacent amended if receivers Arian Smith and AD Mitchell are healthy.

Scarborough: I'm inactive a small skeptical of Michigan. I've been down connected the Big Ten this play and its docket was underwhelming to accidental the least. The past 2 games against Ohio State and Purdue were impressive, but I privation to spot however J.J. McCarthy and the passing crippled execute if they're trailing oregon it's a adjacent crippled late.

Rittenberg: Ohio State backmost C.J. Stroud. He handled the Michigan nonaccomplishment with grace and maturity, saying helium knows however his Buckeyes bequest volition beryllium viewed with nary Big Ten titles and an 0-2 grounds successful The Game. But helium has a accidental to instrumentality retired the defending champs, and acceptable up a imaginable rematch against Michigan successful the title game. Stroud has been an fantabulous subordinate statistically, but Ohio State fans are truly down connected him -- and manager Ryan Day -- aft the Michigan loss. He should beryllium incredibly motivated, and inactive leads 1 of the nation's astir talented offenses into the CFP semis.

Adelson: Hard to reason with what was already mentioned. Looking extracurricular the playoff, I volition spell with North Carolina and backmost Drake Maye. The hype surrounding him is existent -- opposing coaches rave astir him, and his imaginable to beryllium the No. 1 wide prime successful 2024. But it goes without saying some Maye and the Tar Heels ended their play with large disappointment. After a 9-1 start, they closed connected a three-game losing streak and Maye was not astir arsenic businesslike -- failing to propulsion for implicit 300 yards successful the 3 losses. The struggles are not wholly connected Maye. The violative enactment deserves its stock of work -- teams person accrued their unit connected Maye and helium has gotten sacked and deed astatine expanding rates. In the ACC title game, helium was sacked 4 times and threw 2 interceptions. North Carolina besides has had an ineffective tally game, which adds to the problems. The vessel crippled is simply a bully mode to crook the leafage toward 2023, and what should beryllium a play that begins with Heisman hype for the returning quarterback.

Uggetti: I'm with Adam here. Stroud has proven to beryllium an unthinkable endowment acceptable to instrumentality connected the NFL, but to permission assemblage with 2 losses to Michigan and thing adjacent to a rubric is not the mode the Southern California autochthonal wants to spell out. The information that he's getting different accidental to redeem the Buckeyes play and perchance bushed the Wolverines successful a rubric crippled could reshape his bequest entirely.

Baumgartner: While I hold with what Adam and Paolo had to accidental astir Stroud's imaginable reprieve with Ohio State, the information that TCU is successful the College Football Playoff is 1 of the season's champion and singular stories. They accidental things are bigger successful Texas. Well arsenic the archetypal squad from the Lone Star State to scope the CFP, the Horned Frogs person a aureate accidental to marque an indelible connection if they tin stun Michigan successful the Fiesta Bowl. There's thing peculiar brewing successful Fort Worth.

Underclassman astir excited to spot successful vessel season?

Hale: Clemson QB Cade Klubnik. There volition beryllium a batch of "what ifs" whispered astir Clemson for the adjacent fewer months. Dabo Swinney insisted connected sticking with DJ Uiagalelei done an up-and-down season, and the effect was 2 losses that whitethorn person been avoided if Klubnik had gotten connected the tract earlier. Instead, Swinney waited until the ACC title crippled to unleash Klubnik connected an unsuspecting North Carolina, and the freshman was exceptional, completing 20 of 24 passes for 279 yards. Was that a relation of the Tar Heels porous defence (No. 110 successful FBS successful hostile passer rating) combined with a mates of injured DBs? Or was it, arsenic Swinney said, a sneak preview of the aboriginal astatine Clemson? The Orange Bowl volition apt springiness america a acold amended reply successful a matchup with a precise bully Tennessee team.

Scarborough: LSU extracurricular linebacker Harold Perkins Jr. tore up the league down the agelong arsenic a freshman this season. It was precise Will Anderson Jr.-esque the mode helium took implicit games rushing the passer. And portion helium wasn't arsenic effectual against Texas A&M and Georgia, I inactive expect large things from him. A beardown vessel crippled could acceptable him up arsenic 1 of the champion antiaircraft players successful assemblage shot adjacent season.

Schlabach: Check backmost with maine connected this 1 successful a fewer days. If a batch of imaginable NFL first-rounders opt retired of the non-CFP vessel games arsenic expected, we could spot a fig of underclassmen measurement into bigger roles successful vessel games. I'm talking astir guys similar Alabama backmost Jalen Milroe.

Uggetti: Raleek Brown. USC is going to request a caller No. 1 backmost adjacent play to regenerate Travis Dye and Austin Jones, and the five-star imaginable has already shown flashes of his earthy endowment this twelvemonth that marque maine deliberation Lincoln Riley could usage the vessel crippled to unleash him.

Adelson: Hale is right. The Klubnik/Will Shipley operation is 1 that volition person Clemson arsenic a 2023 preseason favourite to marque it backmost to the playoffs. But an under-the-radar ACC subordinate to support an oculus connected is Duke backmost Riley Leonard, 1 of the biggest reasons wherefore Duke made a vessel this year. If helium throws for 206 yards against UCF successful the Military Bowl presented by Peraton, Benefitting the USO, helium volition beryllium Duke's archetypal 3,000-yard passer since Sean Renfree successful 2012 and conscionable the 5th antithetic backmost successful schoolhouse past to ever scope that mark.