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Backus: USC among notable teams in danger of missing bowl game

October 25, 2024

By Will Backus, CBS Sports: It’s crunch time in college football. As the calendar churns on towards November, plenty of teams are feeling various degrees of pressure.

Some are in the thick of the 12-team College Football Playoff race with plenty of games over the last month that will swing their seasons either way. Then there are the teams that are just hoping to make a bowl game.

UTEP and Kent State are the only two teams that have been eliminated from the postseason hunt so far, but that field will grow over the next couple of weeks. There are plenty of programs that remain in that liminal space between six wins and seven losses.

Some have no business being there. For all of the success stories thus far in 2024 — and there have been plenty — there are a lot of major schools that have way underperformed. Even some of the sport’s so-called “blue bloods” are in a precarious position when it comes to making a bowl, let alone hoping for anything beyond that.

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