Chaos Theory: October 2014

There are only nine FBS teams still undefeated entering week 7 of the season.

ACC:  Florida State and Georgia Tech
SEC:  Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi State
Big 12:  TCU and Baylor
Pac-12:  Arizona
Independent:  Notre Dame
B1G:  none!

With each conference's setup, it is impossible for more than one undefeated team to come out of any given conference.  Right away, we know that four of those nine teams won't make it to December undefeated.

In fact, we already know that two of those teams won't make it to Sunday undefeated.  TCU and Baylor play each other, as do Auburn and Mississippi State.

Plus, Florida State will play Notre Dame the following week.

All this guarantees that by October 19, we will only have a maximum of six undefeated teams.

And wouldn't it be fun if there are no undefeated teams in this first year of the playoffs?

If you want to see total chaos, here's who to root for:

Syracuse over Florida State (noon, ESPN)
Duke over Georgia Tech (12:30, ACC Network)
UNC over Notre Dame (3:30, NBC)
Texas A&M over Ole Miss (9, ESPN)
USC over Arizona (10:30, ESPN2)

The other undefeated teams play each other at 3:30:
Auburn at Mississippi State (CBS)
TCU at Baylor (ABC/ESPN2)