USC Leads Pac-12 with Best College Football Playoff Odds
The Pac-12 is looking to end a six-year College Football Playoff drought in what could be their final year of existence. The last Pac-12 program to make the postseason was Washington in the 2016-17 season, in which Alabama defeated them 24-7. Oregon is the only other team to make the CFP, all the way back in its first year. The Ducks would go on to lose to Ohio State in the national championship game.
As USC has yet to make an appearance in the playoffs, Trojan fans are hungry for a chance at a national title for the first time since the 2005-06 season.
Currently, USC leads the Pac-12 as the team with the greatest chance at making the CFP. The Trojans currently have a 24 percent chance of making the postseason according to the Allstate Playoff Predictor.
In contrast, Alabama and Ohio State both have over a 60 percent chance to make the CFP, greater than the entire Pac-12's chances, which sit at 57 percent.
Oregon (15 percent), Utah (8 percent) and Washington (5 percent) round out the top teams in the Pac-12. With matchups against each team as well as a road game against Notre Dame, the Trojans will have a difficult time staying undefeated. It is likely that a one-loss USC program would have a strong chance of making the CFP, as long as they win the Pac-12 Championship for the first time since 2017.
However, the ever-controversial playoff selection committee is difficult to predict, as there are no guarantees in college football.
USC's first game against a Top 25-ranked opponent will be Sept. 30 in Boulder against Colorado.
