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Brace yourself, Washington. Nike Shox r4 For Sale .Be cautiously optimistic, Penn State.Keep your fingers crossed, Wisconsin.No. 2 Ohio State is looming like a bully, ready to pluck the College Football Playoff dreams from somebody who earned a conference championship. The Buckeyes have elbowed and earned their way into the selection committees top four in each of the past two weeks and should stay there again on Tuesday after knocking off No. 3 Michigan in double overtime. The biggest question facing the committee, though, will come on Dec. 4, when it has to determine the value of a conference championship and what to do with an Ohio State team that didnt even win its own division.In each of the past two seasons, speculation swirled about how the committee would handle an independent like Notre Dame or a team that didnt win its conference title, but that debate never came to fruition -- until now. With four wins against Top 25 teams -- at Oklahoma, at Wisconsin, Nebraska and now Michigan -- Ohio State has a playoff résumé that rivals that of any other team in the country save for undefeated Alabama. Penn State, though, clinched the East Division and will play Wisconsin for the Big Ten title, guaranteeing the conference a two-loss champion.And there sits one-loss Ohio State, which beat Wisconsin but lost to Penn State.This will be quite the conundrum for the selection committee, which has been directed by the 10 FBS commissioners in its protocol to use head-to-head results and conference championships as tiebreakers when résumés are comparable.Because Penn State has two losses, though, is it comparable? Dont forget: PSU lost to an unranked Pitt team and lost by 39 points to Michigan -- hence its current No. 7 ranking.The Nittany Lions and their fans need to prepare for the fact that Penn State could win the Big Ten and be left out of the playoff in favor of a team they beat in October. As of today, the gap between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State is significant, according to committee chair Kirby Hocutt, but it should shrink after PSUs convincing win over Michigan State to clinch the East. The more justifiable scenario for the committee would be to have Penn State AND Ohio State in their top four.At the expense of ... ahem ... Washington.Told you to brace yourself, Huskies.Washingtons nonconference schedule -- wins against Rutgers, Idaho and FCS foe Portland State -- is Bayloresque. Worse than that, in fact. Those teams are a combined 12-22 right now. According to ESPN Stats & Information, Washingtons nonconference schedule is ranked 127th out of 128 FBS teams. (Only Boston Colleges is worse.) An undefeated record could compensate for that, but one loss opens the door for debate. The good news is that Washington will have earned wins over ranked opponents Stanford, Utah and Washington State, plus a top-10 team in Colorado if it wins the Pac-12 title.None of those wins, though, is as good as Ohio States win over Michigan. Its also possible No. 23 Washington State drops out of the committees Top 25 this week. If the committee puts Washington in, it will send a message contradictory to everything it has hammered home to this point about strength of schedule. Athletic directors and coaches would then be less inclined to schedule aggressively if they could get away with playing a nonconference lineup like Washingtons and still get in, despite losing a game.And yet ... dont dismiss the possibility that the top four could include Ohio State AND Washington -- but not Penn State.Heres what we know: Alabama and Clemson should be locks if they win their respective conference championships, and somebody from the Big Ten is getting in.Maybe two somebodies.The best-case scenario for Ohio State would be for Wisconsin to win the Big Ten because the Buckeyes beat the Badgers back in October. That head-to-head result would certainly make it easier on the selection committee to explain why it put Ohio State in.What would be difficult to justify would be keeping Michigan in after its second loss of the season. Yes, it was a double-overtime loss on the road to the No. 2 team in the country, and its certainly reasonable to make a case that the Wolverines are one of the best teams in the country with wins over the two Big Ten teams that will be playing for the league title.But Michigan also lost to Iowa. And it now loses the head-to-head argument against the Buckeyes. Michigan should still be ranked ahead of Wisconsin and Penn State this week -- but that will likely change once one of them has the Big Ten title. The Wolverines arent just competing against the Big Ten champs résumé: Michigan would now have to compete against the Buckeyes résumé, a battle its unlikely to win -- again.Big Ten fans want answers. Washington wants in. The problem is that plenty can and will change with one more week of games. The conference championship games -- and in the Big 12s case, Bedlam -- are the final pieces to the puzzle. Only then will the committee have the full body of work to evaluate.But were only three years into this fledgling system, powered by 12 humans who are impossible to predict.They havent been faced yet with a team like Ohio State. The system was constructed this way, though, so they have the freedom to pick the four best teams -- not necessarily four conference champions.The Big Ten will force them to determine what matters most -- and its something not even they know the answer to yet. Nike Shox Nz Black . The defending champion beat Gael Monfils of France 7-6 (6), 6-3, while second-seeded Andy Murray of Britain dispatched Edouard Roger-Vasselin, also of France, 6-3, 6-3. Making his first appearance since injuring his wrist a month ago, Del Potro had difficulty with his service games in the first set. Nike Shox TLX . The team said Saturday that Lopez was hurt during its 121-120 overtime loss at Philadelphia on Friday. The Nets said they would issue another update next week after consultation with their doctors. http://www.shoxgravitynike.com/nike-shox-nz-outlet.html . PETERSBURG, Fla. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Trevor Siemian got the day off but only as a precaution.Rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch ran the Denver Broncos offense at practice Wednesday with Austin Davis also getting some work in while Siemian watched from the sideline and gave his bruised left shoulder another day to heal.With what we did today, I think the other guy needed all of the reps, coach Gary Kubiak said. Trevor didnt need those reps.Siemian said he hopes to practice Thursday and certainly plans to be under center Sunday when the Broncos (4-0) host the Atlanta Falcons (3-1).Ill see how I feel in the morning, he said.Kubiak is prepared to give Lynch his first NFL start if he has to, although hes said he would be OK with giving Siemian the nod even if he isnt able to practice during the week.Id take it all the way to game day. I trust Trevor, Kubiak said. He knows exactly what were doing and hes very bright. Hes on top of everything today. Hes a part of the walk-throughs and everything that were doing so hes on top of everything. Well just see where hes at physically.Lynch was impressive in relief Sunday, throwing for 170 yards and a touchdown in sealing Denvers 27-7 win at Tampa after Siemian got hurt.Siemian, the 250th overall draft pick in 2015, has outdueled top overall picks Cam Newton, Andrew Luck and Jameis Winston along with Andy Dalton, a second-round pick, in his first month as Peyton Mannings successor .Siemian said hes seen the hit he got hurt on just before halftime but doesnt begrudge Buccaneers defensive tackle Clinton McDonald for flinging him to the turf.Hes bringing me to the ground and I just fell funny, Siemian said.Siemian said he figures hell have to work through both the pain and the physical limitations whenever he does return to the field.I feel better than I was yesterday, so I havent tried to do too much, Siemian said.Kubiak held a three-way QB competition this offseason but Siemian and veteran Mark Sanchez quickly separated themselves from Lynch, who slowly adjusted from the spread style he ran at Memphis to Kubiaks West Coast offense with is thick playbook that Lynch compared to a phone book.Hes much improved as far just handling himself, handling the huddle and those types of things, Kubiak said. Nike Shox Nz White. His confidence throwing the ball and stuff, hes always had that. Just handling all of the aspects walking in here today, getting a game plan thats different than the one he had last week. He adjusts a little quicker so I think hes just more confident in his ability each week to refocus, start over and get ready to play.Lynch said he figured hed get his shot to run the offense Wednesday.It feels good to get more reps, Lynch said. Im just doing the best that I can in case I do play on Sunday.Kubiak insisted he was preparing one game plan for whichever QB starts.You dont tweak game plans, he said. You plan to play.Running back C.J. Anderson said Lynchs growth over the last few weeks means coaches dont have to dial it down for him.You can just tell the preparation from OTAs and from training camp all the way to now that it gives us the opportunity to not go and be conservative, to go run our offense the way we want to run it, Anderson said. Thats probably the biggest area hes improved in. As far as all the intangibles, the arm strength and getting out of trouble with his feet, hes been born with those. His preparation and understanding the offense better you can actually see that.The Broncos dealt with musical chairs at quarterback on their way to winning Super Bowl 50, so this is nothing new.Were confident with anybody we got back there, Anderson said.The Broncos have won an NFL-best nine consecutive games and theyve done it while playing four QBs: Manning, Brock Osweiler, Siemian and Lynch.A great defense always helps, Anderson said, and then the 10 guys on offense doing their job to make the quarterbacks job easier. People say its a quarterback-driven league, and all our quarterbacks have played well with their opportunity. If we continue to do our job the way we know we can do it, it makes their job that much easier.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapletonJerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Wholesale Authentic Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys 2018 Jerseys Wholesale ' ' '

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