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Hold on a minute.No. 4 Clemson hasnt even won its own division yet. No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan still havent played. And No. 22 Washington State might have something to say about the Pac-12 North title.With three weeks remaining, theres still plenty of time for teams to impress the 12 members of the College Football Playoff selection committee -- or to trip up in epic fashion, the way we saw last weekend when three of the top four teams lost.Week 12 is another piece of the puzzle, as there are still bubble teams such as No. 14 West Virginia that need a statement win to move up in the rankings. The good news? The Mountaineers will get that opportunity Saturday.Heres a look at who can still impress down the stretch, starting this week:Dont count them out yetNo. 9 Oklahoma?(8-2): The two-loss Sooners are the Big 12s highest-ranked team and can clinch the title outright this weekend with a win at West Virginia and an Oklahoma State loss. OU is two wins away from finishing undefeated in conference play but has yet to beat an opponent ranked in the top 25. That could change Saturday with a win over 14th-ranked Mountaineers in Morgantown. Committee chair Kirby Hocutt recently referenced the Sooners tremendous offense, so OU is clearly passing the committees unspoken eye test at the moment. Theyve continued to bounce back from two early-season losses, Hocutt said Tuesday. Theyre on a seven-game winning streak. The committee believes that Oklahoma is deserving of that 9 spot, and still looking at West Virginia to get a quality win. OU, meanwhile, has the toughest remaining schedule among top-10 teams, according to FPI.No. 10 Colorado?(8-2): The Buffaloes remain the favorite to win the Pac-12 South, and theyve got plenty left on their schedule to earn them a spot in the final top four, starting Saturday against a Washington State team that has won eight straight games. According to ESPNs FPI, Colorado has the toughest schedule in its division. Not only can the Buffs boost their playoff résumé with a win against the Cougars, they also finish the season against No. 12 Utah, and would then likely have a shot at a top-10 opponent in Washington in the Pac-12 championship game. Colorado might be the most legitimate dark horse remaining.No. 11 Oklahoma State?(8-2): Ah, yes, that pesky L next to the Central Michigan game. The two-loss Cowboys are just that in the eyes of the committee: a two-loss team. We treat it as a loss, Hocutt said of the CMU game, which ended in controversial fashion. The question is whether Oklahoma State can overcome it with a Big 12 title. If the Cowboys finish with back-to-back road wins at TCU and Oklahoma, they could be back in the conversation. The win over a ranked West Virginia team is important, and the nonconference win over Pitt looks even better now.No. 14 West Virginia?(8-1): WVU is the committees lowest-ranked one-loss Power 5 team. Hocutt has said in each of the past two weeks that WVUs schedule is holding it back, but Mountaineers fans have taken exception to that, pointing out that No. 9 Oklahoma doesnt have any wins over any top-25 teams, either. The Mountaineers have played only one team ranked in the top 25 (No. 11 Oklahoma State) and they lost, and as Hocutt remarked, the quality win is not there yet for West Virginia. That could change Saturday with a home win over the two-loss Sooners. This is the only remaining ranked opponent for WVU, so it needs to take advantage of it. Its also the only game left that ESPNs FPI doesnt favor the Mountaineers in, giving them a 45.7 percent chance to win.Group of 5: One of the most surprising storylines of the committees third ranking was that one-loss No. 20 Boise State jumped undefeated No. 21 Western Michigan, and thats in large part due to the fact that Boise State has a win over a top-25 team in Washington State. Boise still needs Wyoming to lose again, though, to have a chance at winning its division in the Mountain West. ESPNs FPI gives Boise State a 46 percent chance to win the Mountain West, second behind San Diego State, which has clinched the West Division. Western Michigan has a 70 percent chance to win out, according to FPI.Dont lose focusCollege football reminded us ever so bluntly last weekend that no game is a gimme. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice? Youre out of the top four. Heres a look at the rest of the contenders who cant get caught looking ahead to Rivalry Week:No. 2 Ohio State: The Buckeyes travel to Michigan State on Saturday and are clinging to playoff hopes in spite of their high ranking. Not only can they not afford to lose, they need Penn State to lose again to win the East.No. 3 Michigan: The Wolverines host a pesky Indiana team and could be without starting quarterback?Wilton Speight. This will be the committees first chance to see if Michigan still looks like a top-four team without him.No. 4 Clemson:?If Clemson wins at Wake Forest on Saturday, it will clinch the ACCs Atlantic Division. If it loses, Louisville will win the division. The Tigers playoff hopes are on the line in Winston-Salem.No. 6 Washington: The Huskies should be able to rebound from last weeks disappointing loss to USC with a home win against Arizona State. Theres only one game more important than the Apple Cup right now -- this one.No. 7 Wisconsin:?The Badgers travel to Purdue, and they can clinch the West Division with a win and losses by Nebraska and Minnesota. Dont count a two-loss Big Ten champ out.No. 8 Penn State:?The Nittany Lions should have no trouble against a Rutgers team that is winless in the Big Ten, but it needs to win out and hope Michigan stumbles once more to win the East.SuperlativesPlayer in the spotlight: OU WR Dede Westbrook. He leads the nation with 1,100 receiving yards since Oct. 1. During that time he has caught 82 percent of the passes thrown his way and has gained a Power 5-high 515 yards after the catch.Matchup to watch: Washington States offense vs. Colorados defense. The Buffs secondary is ranked No. 2 in the nation behind Ohio State at 5.5 yards allowed per attempt, and Wazzu QB Luke Falk leads the country with a 74 percent completion rate. The Cougars have an FBS-high eight players with at least 20 receptions each.Upset watch: Louisville at Houston. The Cardinals cant afford another slow start like they had against Duke, Virginia and Wake Forest. Houston receiver Chance Allen said this is our Super Bowl. QB Greg Ward Jr. is still battling an ankle injury that has hindered him all season, but coach Tom Herman said Ward is going to play and give his brothers everything hes got.Dont forget about: Pitt RB James Conner. As if his miraculous recovery from cancer wasnt enough, Conner stands only two touchdowns shy of breaking the ACCs career record for touchdowns scored that is currently held by Virginias Wali Lundy.Under-the-radar game: Navy at East Carolina. The Midshipmen can clinch the AACs West Division with a win over the Pirates.Dubious distinction: Sorry, Cal. You get the award this week. 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Most recently he was the schools assistant football coach. Air Max Outlet Online Store . And follow TSN.ca right through Deadline Day for all the updates. From Pierre LeBrun While Anaheim GM Bob Murray said earlier this season he was not going to trade Jonas Hiller despite the fact hes an unrestricted free agent on July 1, some sources have told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun that Murray might be willing to move another goalie. MINNEAPOLIS -- You talk to Bill Parcells about his extended coaching family, about the fact that Bill Belichick, Tom Coughlin and Sean Payton won a combined seven Super Bowls on their own, and he will usually offer up a quick reminder. Dont forget about Mike Zimmer, he?will say.Zimmer was given his first pro football job by then-Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer, and he helped the man win a ring before his ol buddy Jerry Jones sacked him. But you know how that story goes. It sounds a whole lot better to say a man emerged from the Bill Parcells tree than from the Barry Switzer tree or the Chan Gailey tree or the Dave Campo tree.But someday in the not-too-distant future, there could be a Mike Zimmer tree that enhances his legacy as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, one of only two 4-0 teams in the NFL. On Monday night, after he undressed the rookie coach of the New York Giants, Ben McAdoo, about as thoroughly as he undressed Coughlin last season, Zimmer stood alone in a hallway and spoke about the possibility of doing something even Bud Grant couldnt do -- winning the whole thing.I dont know if were as good as Denver was defensively last year, Zimmer told ESPN.com, but weve got some depth on our defense and some guys who will really compete and fight. I thought our team did a lot of good things last year, but I didnt know if we were ready. I dont know if we were really ready to go that far. This years team? I dont know how far we can go, either, but this team is kind of special.At 60, Zimmer looks and sounds like an old-school drill instructor running detention at your local high school. His raspy voice betrays a full life of barking orders on a football field. He paid his dues the Bruce Arians way, the hard way, working for 35 consecutive years as a college and pro assistant. Imagine that. Imagine being as good at something as Zimmer is at coaching and spending 3? decades answering to a superior who probably isnt, you know, superior.Zimmer was an assistant for nearly as long as McAdoo was alive before McAdoo got his big break with the Giants (at age 38), and frankly, it showed in the Vikings 24-10 victory in their thunder dome of a new ballpark, U.S. Bank Stadium, which is going to sound like a dozen jet engines to a visiting postseason team in January. The Giants were a disorganized and undisciplined mess -- in part because Odell Beckham Jr. ignored his coachs order to cool it -- and hey, in fairness, McAdoo deserves a year or two to establish his program and control over his star players.Only this was no game and no time to learn on the job. Long one of the leagues best defensive minds, Zimmer has built a unit on the more violent side of the ball that might not be the 2015 Broncos or the 2000 Ravens or the 1985 Bears but something close enough.The Vikings have beaten three consecutive Super Bowl starters in Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, and two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, who also was humiliated in December by this very Minnesota defense. Last week, Newton was sacked eight times and intercepted three times, while his most talented receiver, Kelvin Benjamin, was completely shut out. Manning on Monday night didnt throw a touchdown pass and spent too much of the game ducking and flinching and just getting rid of the damn thing. Beckham? He had three catches for 23 yards, or only eight more yards than he surrendered on yet another personal foul. Suspended for the Minnesota blowout last season, Beckham effectively missed this one too.I only worry about my players, Zimmer said in his news conference when asked about Mondays extracurriculars between Beckham and cornerback?Xavier Rhodes, who won this fight in a knockout. I dont care about the other teams players.And why should he when his players appear focused enough and team-minded enough to takke the Vikings where they havent been since Brett Favre threw that interception in the NFC Championship Game?Its more than a little hard to believe too.dddddddddddd The Vikings lost their promising young quarterback, Teddy Bridgewater, and one the greatest running backs of all time, Adrian Peterson, and yet they have joined the defending champs in Denver as the only 4-0 teams, despite a circle of skill-position players who are suspect enough to notarize Zimmer as coach of the quarter-year.Zimmers starting quarterback is Sam Bradford, a box-office bust who moves around the pocket about as nimbly as your grandfather negotiating a flight of stairs. His starting running back is Jerick McKinnon out of Georgia Southern. His starting receivers are Stefon Diggs, a fifth-rounder out of Maryland, and Charles Johnson, a seventh-rounder out of Grand Valley State. His tight end is Kyle Rudolph?--?OK, a second-rounder out of Notre Dame, but still, a guy who has never cleared 500 receiving yards in a season.Were not going to concern ourselves with stats, Zimmer said. Were concerned about wins.Out in the hallway, this son of a high school coach started talking about his general manager, Rick Spielman, and the selfless players the Vikings keep recruiting and developing for their program.Our guys want to do good so someone else can do good, Zimmer said. I always tell them, Do your job so someone else can have success doing their job, and theyve taken that to heart. I say things to the team and then I hear my players repeat it to the media, and that means theyre at least listening to me.Every Wednesday when we win, I give them breakfast sandwiches; Marvin Lewis did it when I was in Cincinnati. And I have a sign up that says, You take care of me, I take care of you. So when we win, I take care of these guys. When we win, I want them to feel special; and when we lose, I want them to feel as bad as I do.Zimmer has felt the searing postseason pain of a devastating defeat more than once. He was in Dallas with Parcells when Tony Romo dropped that field goal snap in the final seconds of what appeared to be a sure victory over Seattle. And of course, he was right there with his Vikings last season when the Blair Walsh Project-ile went wide left on a chip shot that shouldve eliminated those same Seahawks.Walsh went wide left again Monday night, making a nervous man of his coach.I wish I knew, Zimmer said of a potential solution to his kickers problems. We need to make those or its going to bite us in the rear end.The kicker might be the only man standing between the Vikings and a deep postseason run.Somehow, some way, Zimmers offensive coordinator, Norv Turner, has Bradford looking competent and confident. Spielman has pieced together a defense out of the John Elway playbook. And Zimmer has made a fool out of all the owners and executives who passed on him over the years.He got his first head coaching job in 2014 and won the Vikings first division title since 2009 last season. Now he fields a contender that didnt blink when its starting quarterback and all-time great running back went down with injuries.I think this team likes to win, Zimmer said. I think they like to compete. I think they like to go out there and prove to everybody that they can be talked about with some of the better teams in the league.Before he was done in his news conference, the winning coach said he wasnt handing out any medals tonight, a line that sounded borrowed from a mentor, Bill (No Medals for Trying) Parcells. The Minnesota Vikings are for real, ladies and gentlemen, which is another way of delivering this Parcellsian piece of advice:Dont forget about Mike Zimmer. ' ' '