College Football Plus: CFP picture starting to come into focus....but

Is chaos or clarity coming in the always interesting world of FBS CFP football?

Let's take a look at the menu, conference by conference, with the chase for Final Four slots the main priority but the ongoing controversies at Michigan with Coach Jim Harbaugh and Texas A&M and just fired coach Jimbo Fisher.

Power 5 

SEC

Alabama and Georgia settled matters in the SEC West and East on Saturday and we can't wait for that showdown for the conference championship game in Atlanta.

But the headline news came on Sunday afternoon when Texas A&M fired Jimbo  Fisher as the Aggies stagger to another mediocre (in their minds) season, which again includes 4 losses.

In six plus seasons in Aggieland, Fisher has given the school one Year's Day bowl bid (Orange Bowl) no Final Four appearances, no SEC titles.

At 10 million dollars a year, the Aggies wanted more than Alamo Bowl bids, so Fisher is now gone, at buyout cost of 75 million dollars.

There will be lots of names floated the next few days, ranging from Duke coach Mike Elko (who came from  Fisher's staff) to Oregon coach Dan Lanning.to Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz.

Good solid picks, but not the right one for Texas A&M.

There is only one call which needs to be made if he  accepts the prekmise.

Urban Meyer.

Meyer says he is happy in his job working as a analyst for Fox.  He says he is done coaching like his life.

But A&M needs more than a football coach. They need to have someone who can match championship rings with Alabama coach Nick Saban and  Georgia coach Kirby Smart.

Meyer can do that.

They need someone who  beats Top 10 teams, who wins conference, as well as national championships, who is force of nature.

Meyer has won--at Bowling Green, at Utah at Florida, at Ohio State.

He won't back down, or break away. As a COLLGE coach he is that good. He is a presence, as much as a coach.

Texas A&M needs him, can afford him and he will deliver what he has been asked to do.

Let's see what happens.

Elsewhere in the SEC,  Missouri exposed Tennessee and established itself as tat worst the third or fourth best team in the SEC

Big Ten

Michigan is at war with the Big Ten and its now in the courts as a decision on whether Harbaugh continue to coach the Wolverines while the evidence of Michigan's sign stealing operation is unveiled 

That's not good.

The Wolverines with a conservative game plan of running 30 consecutive running plays ran all over Penn State, exposing the Lions as an under coached outfit.

The Wolverines still look like the best team in the Big Ten team, no matter who is coaching.

Iowa, which is a one dimensional team from the West, looks like a sacrificial opponent for Ohio State or Michigan in Big 10 title    A 22-0  win vs. Rutgers shows as much about RU's offensive ineptness as it does about Iowa's defense which is good as their offense is pathetic.

ACC

FSU and Louisville are tracking towards the ACC title game.FSU is a Final  4 quality team, Louisville can reach the Orange bowl, but probably not beyond.

Boston College, which showed signs of life going into the Virginia Tech game on Saturday, but a 48-22 Tech win sent the Eagles back into a smaller bowl orbit-Fenway Bowl against an AAC opponent such as Memphis? sounds right. 

Big 12

Texas remains the Big 12 only chance at a  Final Four bid, but the Longhorns don't inspire confidence by blowing double digit leads against inferior opponents such as their3 point win over TCU .

PAC 12

Washington out lasted Utah and Oregon held off USC to remain as the top t wo teams in the Pac-12. Washington is unbeaten, but looks shaky in winning every week and not many people outside of Seattle  think that the Huskies will win a rematch with te Ducks in the Pac-12 title game.

The southern half of the  Big Ten expansion  project, USC and UCLA continue to stagger out of the Pac-12 with lacklustre efforts. USC played better defense in losing to Oregon while UCLA just looked inept in losing to Arizona State. 

A loss to USC could make UCLA coach Chip Kelly the latest coaching casualty.

Play it forward (games of note next week)

James Madison at Appalachian State-Real chance for JMU's first loss.

Georgia at Tennessee--Should be easy for the Bulldogs, but winning in Knoxville is never easy for a visiting team.

Harvard at Yale--Classic rivalry and Harvard coach Tim Murphy can move into the top of the Ivy league record books with a win.