Kirk Herbstreit Floats Rutgers As College Football Playoff Contender

During last week's appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, Kirk Herbstreit was asked to pick some College Football Playoff dark horses from a Power Five conference. With the Big Ten expanding to 18 teams, Herbstreit believes the schedule will play a huge factor in which teams can make noise and floated a surprising possibility...

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"Someone is going to come out of that conference that you really didn’t expect," Herbstreit predicted. "Whether that’s an Iowa, whether it's -- who knows -- [Dylan] Raiola at Nebraska. Whoever has the most manageable schedule. Rutgers has a schedule that’s, by Big Ten standards in this Big Ten world that we’re in, they can make a little bit of a run."

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(The Spun)