[Snorlax94]

Amazingly, I still think the Alamo Bowl is still a theoretical possibility.  But because there's so much parity in the conference standings, if next week's games go amiss, Stanford could drop quite a bit.

In the best case scenario, Washington wins out, annihilates Washington state in the Apple cup (knocking them out and making them unattractive to bowl games), and wins the pac-12 championship and goes to the CFP, vacating the Rose Bowl.

If Colorado can blow out Utah, Utah will have a weaker record than us, especially if they lose badly. And I think teams with recent losses are less attractive to bowl games than teams on a hot streak,  especially if a team has a marquee brand and a marquee player like last year's AP player of the year.

So if all this happens and Colorado goes to the Rose Bowl and Washington State and Utah end the season with two game losing streaks, Stanford could be up next. One problem is Under Stanford Control (again) which is on a hot streak. But if they keep winning they may be invited to an NY6 ball game knocking them out of the pac-12 selection order.

So if all those things happen, Stanford would be up next to go to the Alamo bowl, which would be a very cool bowl game.  But because there would be so many teams with only one more loss, there is the risk that many bowl games could choose to skip us also, which could really suck.

In the worst case scenario, somehow things blow up enough that no one makes the CFP and there's a five way tie for first place, in which case Stanford would be fifth or sixth, which could push us to the Vegas or Cactus Bowl.

[Snorlax94]

Amazingly, I still think the Alamo Bowl is still a theoretical possibility.  But because there's so much parity in the conference standings, if next week's games go amiss, Stanford could drop quite a bit.

In the best case scenario, Washington wins out, annihilates Washington state in the Apple cup (knocking them out and making them unattractive to bowl games), and wins the pac-12 championship and goes to the CFP, vacating the Rose Bowl.

If Colorado can blow out Utah, Utah will have a weaker record than us, especially if they lose badly. And I think teams with recent losses are less attractive to bowl games than teams on a hot streak,  especially if a team has a marquee brand and a marquee player like last year's AP player of the year.

So if all this happens and Colorado goes to the Rose Bowl and Washington State and Utah end the season with two game losing streaks, Stanford could be up next. One problem is Under Stanford Control (again) which is on a hot streak. But if they keep winning they may be invited to an NY6 ball game knocking them out of the pac-12 selection order.

So if all those things happen, Stanford would be up next to go to the Alamo bowl, which would be a very cool bowl game.  But because there would be so many teams with only one more loss, there is the risk that many bowl games could choose to skip us also, which could really suck.

In the worst case scenario, somehow things blow up enough that no one makes the CFP and there's a five way tie for first place, in which case Stanford would be fifth or sixth, which could push us to the Vegas or Cactus Bowl.