In a little more than a month, you will hear people all across the country demand a playoff in college football when the BCS blows up in everyone's face.
It happens every year and it surely will again.
Will there be more than one undefeated team or multiple one-loss teams? Boise State and TCU will likely be on the outside looking in even against a one-loss team.
Let's face it, there isn't going to be a college football playoff anytime soon -university presidents and bowl sponsors won't allow it. But is a playoff really the answer? After all, sometimes who makes the playoffs doesn't even make sense at the high school level. Take Zanesville.
Zanesville is 8-1 with its season finale Friday at home against 7-2 Jackson. The Blue Devils are 18th - yes, 18th - in the Division II, Region 7 standings.
Even if Zanesville wins, it probably won't make the playoffs. The reason? The Blue Devils have played just two teams that have winning records - Logan (9-0) and St. Charles (5-4). The other seven teams are a combined 8-55.
So how rare is it that a team could go 9-1 and not make the playoffs? Not as rare as you might think.
According to Zanesville statistician Devin Schultz, since the OHSAA went to this format in 1999, 20 teams have finished with one loss or no losses and not made the playoffs.
Newcomerstown went 10-0 in 2001 and missed out.
The 2000 season is the only time in the current format that all unbeatens and one-loss teams made it. Every other year, at least one one-loss team has missed. And of those 20, 14 just missed in their region by finishing ninth - including two teams losing out on tiebreakers for eighth place.
The list is:
1999 -Region 14: Columbus Ready, 9th; Region 20: New Albany, 9th
2001 -Region 2: Perrysburg, 9th; Region 15: Newcomerstown (10-0), 12th
2002 - Region 8: Woodward, 9th; Region 12: New Richmond, 9th
2003 -Region 4: Lebanon, 11th;
2004 - Region 4: Northmont, 9th; Region 4: Lakota East, 10th; Region 10: Beechcroft, 9th
2005 - Region 19: Trimble, 9th
2006 -Region 5: West Geauga, 9th
2007 - Region 12: Eastmoor Academy, 9th; Region 14: Bucyrus, 13th; Region 17: Cuyahoga Heights, 9th (lost 3rd level tiebreaker for 8th); Region 23: Waterford, 9th
2008 - Region 10: Urbana, 9th (lost 3rd-level tiebreaker for 8th); Region 13: Girard, 12th; Region 18: Northwood, 9th; Region 24: Grove City Christian (8-1), 12th
Zanesville went 8-1 in 1998 and didn't make the playoffs, but that was when only four teams made the postseason. Plenty must happen this week for the Blue Devils to buck this recent trend and make the postseason after a one-year absence.
Ground Gainers
Aerial Attack
Good Hands Team
Wrecking Crew
Mr. Everything
(Weekend wrap only includes teams that called or emailed their stats on Sunday).