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Dan Lyons

UNBELIEVABLE: How iowa vs oregon impacts the college football playoff race for both programs | History Defined

Oregon has been treated as a program firmly in the Big Ten’s top tier this season, but based on the initial College Football Playoff rankings, the Ducks’ position is a little more tenuous than many may have expected.

Dan Lanning’s club debuted at No. 9 in the season’s first CFP rankings, dragged down by a decisive home loss to No. 2 Indiana and the erosion of the quality of its overtime win at Penn State earlier this year. On Saturday, they travel to face a Big Ten team that is quietly well-positioned to make some noise in the CFP race: No. 20 Iowa.

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