rankings. The odds makers and pundits just insist on helping to keep that "CHIP" squarely fixed on the BYU players' shoulders. It's like a perfect "storm" (in a backwards way), combined with a reasonably low occurrence of key injuries this year. Those two ingredients make for a really good sauce (with a dash of a favorable TO margin) for a team to make a really successful run. How successful? We'll see. But there's a chance for something really special.

Regardless, when that CFP "goodness" came out this week, I immediately smiled that mischievous smile, and my concern for the Utah game (despite a solid Ute "D") went down quite a few notches.