Oklahoma jumping from 7 to 3 is a joke ... they aren't as good of a team as everybody trying to crown them is making them out to be. Being up 23-7 at half against a team playing a combination of a 2nd and 3rd team QB and needing a failed 2 point conversion to win isn't indicative of a championship contender to me. And before everybody points to Oklahoma playing their backup QB in the 2nd half, that was also their starter last year.
Can Oregon get to a high end game? That's a really good question. Their resume is basically done as they won't get anything out of the game against Oregon State this weekend ... see TCU dropping from 3 to 6 after a beat down of Iowa State last year as an example.
There are a lot of games between teams ahead of Oregon that will add a loss:
Alabama vs Florida
Oklahoma vs Oklahoma St
Michigan vs Ohio St
Michigan St or Michigan or Ohio St vs Iowa
Notre Dame vs Stanford
Florida vs Florida St
Clemson vs North Carolina
Hard to imagine Oregon jumping over any loss from Alabama, Oklahoma, Michigan St, Iowa, Ohio St, Notre Dame, or Clemson. Possible that they could jump Oklahoma St, Michigan, the Florida schools, North Carolina, and Stanford. Stanford is an interesting one though for Oregon because Stanford won the division that Oregon is in although Oregon beat them.
Here's where I think it starts getting interesting though for Oregon ... no matter how much chaos can happen ahead of Oregon, what can happen behind them? Ole Miss plays Miss St this weekend and they are at 18 and 21 respectively (Oregon at 17). Very possible that the winner of that game (both are playing well) could jump ahead of Oregon. TCU at 19 gets a game against Baylor. A win there, particularly an impressive one, could cause a decent jump when you consider that one of TCU's 2 losses came with their QB injured. Cougs at 20 have a game at Washington that not only adds a road win, but also finds the Cougs end the year with the same record in conference as Oregon with a H2H win at Eugene on the resume. Even UCLA at 22 has a chance should they be able to beat USC and obviously if UCLA or USC end up beating Stanford I believe they are automatically slotted to the Rose Bowl.
That's a TL, DR way of saying that I think that the Ducks may be looking well served to head to San Antonio for a possible game against TCU.
