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Below Calvin Ridley Jersey Discount , we’re keeping track of each top-25 game’s impact, both before and after final scores, mostly paying attention to CFP committee business, not highlights and stuff.Remember the things the committee has mostly demonstrated it rewards: wins over final top-25 teams, wins over bowl teams, road wins, dominant wins, weirdly excusable losses, being Alabama, and not being a mid-major. It does not care what your opponent’s ranking was at kickoff.All times ET. All days Saturday, unless noted. Final scores in bold.Probably importantGames in which the winning team should have a high-quality victory by season’s end or games that will decide a Power 5 division race. Or: really meaningful upsets.No. 3 Notre Dame 36, No. 12 Syracuse 3: Notre Dame’s now 60 minutes away from the Playoff, adding a really nice performance against a good offense today.Oklahoma State 45, No. 9 West Virginia 41: The Big 12’s down to just one Playoff contender.No. 10 Ohio State 52, Maryland 51 in overtime: Up here because of the hideous final score, which is actually kind to the Buckeyes. This game should be held against them by the committee.No. 15 Texas 24, No. 16 Iowa State 10: The Horns just need to beat Kansas next week in order to clinch a Big 12 title shot, likely a Red River rematch.Maybe importantGames in which the winner should have something to show for it, such as at least a win over a decent bowl team.No. 2 Clemson 35, Duke 6: A nice win for Clemson. That’s fine.No. 8 Washington State 69, Arizona 28: Zona’s a potential bowl team, this is a nice win, and the Cougs should probably move up a spot or so. But the Pac-12 North championship Apple Cup next week is all that really matters.No. 17 Kentucky 34, Middle Tennessee 23: UK’s almost certainly out of the NY6 race Calvin Ridley Jersey Super Bowl , but a bid to a nice game like the Citrus Bowl is still up for grabs. Keep the win-loss record shiny.No. 19 Utah 30, Colorado 7: Thanks to this and Oregon beating Arizona State, the wounded Utes are your Pac-12 South champs for the first time.Florida State 22, No. 20 Boston College 21: FSU’s nation-leading bowl streak ain’t dead yet.No. 22 Northwestern 24, Minnesota 14: The Big Ten should root for Northwestern to show up at the conference title game with a top-20 ranking, which still isn’t exactly guaranteed.Pitt 34, Wake Forest 13: Pitt just won the ACC Coastal lol.Important for the Group of 5 raceSince the committee’s showed for years that non-power teams have a REALLY long path to the Playoff, let’s have a separate section for the race to be the top-ranked mid-major champ. No. 11 UCF 38, No. 24 Cincinnati 13: UCF wins the AAC East and will remain favored to make the NY6 again. Also, if UCF doesn’t jump Ohio State in this week’s rankings, it’s time to hop back on the UCF Is Being Screwed wagon, a wagon I haven’t been on since last season. It’s a very specific wagon.No. 23 Utah State 29, Colorado State 24: A narrow survival against a bad team won’t impress the committee, but the MWC isn’t out of the NY6 race just yet.No. 25 Boise State 45, New Mexico 14: Good on the committee for ranking a two-loss non-power. Boise-Utah State will decide the division.Ohio 52, Buffalo 17: The MAC’s now out of one-loss teams, FWIW.Houston 48, Tulane 17: Thanks to Memphis, Houston now has the outright AAC West lead, but ...Memphis 28, SMU 18: ... Memphis hosts Houston next week for the division title.Texas A&M 41, UAB 20: The #RankUAB train ends, and Conference USA is out of one-loss teams. It doesn’t matter much.Probably not importantThe committee tries not to care much about your wins over FCS teams or teams that finish with bad records, though you can get some credit for winning on the road or really laying it to folks. So for the ranked teams here: just don’t lose!No. 1 Alabama 50 Calvin Ridley Jersey For Sale , The Citadel 17: A dream result for Nick Saban: he gets to scream at his team all week about that unbelievably bad first half.No. 4 Michigan 31, Indiana 20: Closer than you’d like, but that’s what happens when you play Indiana as a top-five team.No. 5 Georgia 66, UMass 27No. 6 Oklahoma 55, Kansas 40: Hi, 40 is a lot of points to give up to Kansas.No. 7 LSU 42, Rice 10No. 13 Florida 63, Idaho 10No. 14 Penn State 20, Rutgers 7: Yuck! And it should’ve been even yuckier, if Rutgers hadn’t dropped a sure TD.No. 18 Washington 42, Oregon State 23No. 21 Mississippi State 52, Arkansas 6 Friday evening was a tough one for the baseball world with the game reminding all of us of our mortality, as it is wont to do. Although it wasn’t a huge surprise, it’s always jarring when it is made official. That is, Joe Mauer is walking away from the game. One of the most underappreciated players of his time made the announcement last night, and he released this letter to Twins fans. Mauer is a true throwback as a contact-oriented hitter whose game fits less and less with the modern MLB aesthetic, and also as someone who spent his entire career with one team. It’s a rare and special connection between fan and player, and you can see that come through with that statement. Mauer is certainly going to be in the Hall of Fame within the next seven years or so, but it seems as if players like him are too often only properly-appreciated at times like these. Mauer was, quite simply, one of the very best players of his generation and for a time he looked like a future inner-circle, first-ballot Hall of Famer. He’s not at that point anymore, but that was largely out of his control. Over the first ten years of his career, Mauer hit a wildly impressive .323/.405/.468 and was 35 percent better than the league-average hitter. Oh Calvin Ridley Jersey On Sale , and most of that came as a catcher. For some context, no catcher has hit that well in a single season since 2014, and only 12 have done so with at least 350 plate appearances since 2010. Unfortunately, concussion issues eventually caught up with Mauer, and he had to leave the catcher position to play first base. His relative lack of power didn’t play as well there, and a weirdly vocal portion of the Minnesota fan base used that and his contract against him whenever they could. On a national level, the view of Mauer wasn’t much more fair, if it all.The lack of appreciation for Mauer during the second half of his career was always frustrating, in no small part because injuries had been the reason for his downfall. It’s refreshing, though, that we can now properly contextualize just how great of a story Mauer was. A hometown kid spending his entire Hall of Fame career with the team he grew up rooting for. One of the best pure hitters the game has ever seen, and the guy you’re always told is your favorite player’s favorite player. Mauer was one of the best players of his time, plain and simple, and that’s with head injuries essentially taking away his 30’s. We’ll never know what truly could have been, but we know that it was a tremendous career either way. If these teams don’t spend in free agency they have no right to complain when 2019 doesn’t go as well as they’d hoped.The 2018 Red Sox just can’t lose. A Massachusetts man played Red Sox jersey numbers for a lottery ticket....and won.Mauer isn’t the only future Hall of Famer whose career may be over. Adrian Beltre hasn’t announced anything, but he may be leaning towards retirement.Scott Boras spoke to the media last week, which means it’s time to play ”Did Scott Boras say that?”Big news from Cubs land....maybe. According to Buster Olney, Chicago may be willing to trade Kris Bryant. File this under I’ll Believe It When I See It.Sticking with the Cubs, will fans at Wrigley be satisfied with just one World Series win?When a player struggles with the Yankees, it’s easy to say he simply can’t handle playing in New York. Is that a real thing?The Rays traded for Mike Zunino earlier this week. He is: Good.The next Mariners player to go very well may be James Paxton, and the Dodgers could be the best fit for the southpaw.Speaking of the Dodgers, they may also be a fit for the best catcher on the trade market.In more trade talk, could two of the best teams in the American League match up for a deal?The Orioles are coming off a historically bad season and clearly in rebuild mode. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be in on the free agent market.