The College Football Playoff Selection Committee is releasing its first CFP rankings Tuesday, and the Oregon Ducks are anticipated to be at the top of the list, favored to win the Big Ten Conference championship.

Oregon’s Rob Mullens and Michigan’s Warde Manuel, now colleagues in the Big Ten, found themselves sharing an Uber after a meeting of the league’s athletic directors. The conversation turned to Manuel’s role as chairman of the College Football Playoff committee,

After the Oregon Ducks walked away from Ann Arbor with a victory on Saturday afternoon against the Michigan Wolverines, their path to the College Football Playoff got simplified. The Ducks now stand as one of four Power-4 conference teas without a loss,