Somehow, Ohio State's win over rival Michigan on Saturday might have hurt -- if not destroyed -- the Buckeyes' chances of qualifying for the inaugural College Football Playoff. Quarterback J.T. Barrett was carted off the field with an air cast on his leg in the second half of OSU's 42-28 win over the Wolverines. Ohio State announced shortly after the game that Barrett is . The College Football Playoff's official website lists five criteria that will help the selection committee "." The last of those five reads as follows:Other relevant Zac Jones Jersey factors such as key injuries that may have affected a team's performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.Among the legitimate contenders for the four-team playoff, few if any players are more valuable to their team than Barrett, who has been spectacular since replacing injured star quarterback Braxton Miller before the beginning of the season. Even with a healthy Barrett, the Buckeyes, currently ranked sixth in the CFP rankings, might have needed some help to get into the playoff anyway. Now, with the most important position on the field a complete unknown for the Buckeyes -- just as Barrett was in early September -- the injury factor could be a death blow to Ohio State's playoff hopes, even if it wins the Big Ten and finishes the season 12-1.Fair? Unfair? As long as an injury factor is written into selection committee's guidelines, fairne s is a question for whether the official criteria should be revised, not whether the Buckeyes should be given a break.A crazy college football season just got crazier. And an unfortunate injury in Columbus, Ohio, might have launched another team, perhaps Texas Christian, into the playoff.Here are 17 other things you need to know from the day in college football:The highest-scoring Iron Bowl ever gave us 1,171 yards of total offense. And Amari Cooper had 224 of the most important ones. The Tide's star junior led a second-half comeback as in a game that proved to be just as thrilling, and nearly as dangerous for Alabama, as last year's game. As far as Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin is concerned, though, nothing's more dangerous -- or automatic -- . Alabama faces Mi souri in the SEC title game next week.They call the Oregon-Oregon State game the Civil War Matthew Robertson Jersey . But there was nothing civil about the way Ducks quarterback Marcus Mariota treated the Beavers. The -- four pa sing and two rushing -- in a 47-19 rout. Just how helple s was Oregon State to stop him? Well, Mariota had as many touchdowns as incompletions. Not exactly the recipe for an upset of the CFP's No. 2-ranked team.Barrett's injury wasn't the only one to a big-name quarterback. Baylor's Bryce Petty suffered a concu sion against Texas Tech during the ' 48-46 win. That's of significant concern for Baylor fans as his . Fortunately for the , backup Seth Ru sell picked up significant experience early in the season while Petty was recovering from a back injury.Is the Jim Thorpe Award now on ice? The honor for the nation's top defensive back might have been sealed Saturday when Louisville safety Gerod Holliman picked off his 14th pa s of the season against Kentucky, held by Washington's Al Worley. Holliman still has a bowl game to reach 15.The year of the running back in college football added a new face to the 2,000-yard club. Indiana's Tevin Coleman picked up 130 yards against Purdue to run his season total to 2,036. As Indiana won't qualify for a bowl, Coleman's season is done. One NFL scout has been because of what he considers a suspect IU offensive line.Jameis Winston's season went a little further into the tank Saturday. Yet FSU's season marched on victorious. The defending Heisman Trophy winner , but the Seminoles still managed to pull out a 24-19 home win to run its win streak to 28 games. FSU will face Georgia Tech next weekend in the ACC title game. And if Winston's season continues trending downward, it will be up to the Seminoles' defense to put FSU in the College Football Playoff field.USC junior QB Cody Ke sler has said he'll be back next year for the Trojans. And on Saturday, he showed Southern Cal fans . Ke sler completed 32 of 40 pa ses for 372 yards and a cool six touchdowns without an interception in a 49-14 embarra sment of Notre Dame. Junior receiver Nelson Agholor pulled in 12 receptions for 120 yards and a score in what might have been Talyn Boyko Jersey the final regular-season game of his college career.It's been a tale of two halves in Mi si sippi. Halves of the season, that is. Ole Mi s and Mi si sippi State were ranked at the top of the polls halfway through the year, but the wheels came off for the Rebels weeks ago, and to return the favor, Ole Mi s took the wheels off MSU's season with a 31-17 Egg Bowl win. . A year that saw both programs rise to the highest level ended with both on the outside of the conference and national championship picture.Bobby Petrino knows how to endear himself, doesn't he? The Louisville coach embraced his standing as one of college football's favorite villians Saturday when he diffused exacerbated an on-field skirmish by going nose to nose with Kentucky a sistant Dan Berezowitz. .Here's your new definition for the phrase "giving a game away." Georgia and Georgia Tech combined for two blocked field goals (one each) and an incredible three fumbles at each other's 1-yard line Saturday. But it was a couple of late special-teams blunders by the Bulldogs that closed out Georgia's regular season .Clemson coach Dabo Swinney got a pesky monkey off his back. The Tigers coach had lost five games in a row to rival South Carolina -- the Gamecocks' longest winning streak in series history -- but snapped the streak Saturday with a 35-17 win. The Gamecocks began the season in embarra sing fashion against Texas A&M and didn't end it any better. Senior South Carolina quarterback Dylan Thompson was outplayed by a , Clemson's Deshaun Watson (14-of-19 for Alex Belzile Jersey 269 yards). And if this was Gamecocks junior running back ' last college game, , he went out with a whimper (12 carries, 39 yards).The long-downtrodden program at Memphis is downtrodden no more. The Tigers drilled UConn 41-10 to win a share of the AAC title for third-year coach Justin Fuente. It marks Memphis' second nine-win season since -- gulp -- 1963.It's one thing to play both ways. But unlike UCLA's Myles Jack or Washington's Shaq Thompson, Michigan State's Tony Lippett actually started both ways Saturday against Penn State. As MSU coach Mark Dantonio, Lippett got Rob Mcclanahan Jersey the start at cornerback and finished with a modest stat line -- one tackle and one pa s breakup -- on defense. On offense, the was a little more impactful, making .The historic nature of Melvin Gordon's season is bordering on legendary. The Wisconsin running back picked up another 151 yards against Minnesota to . That's just 368 yards shy of the most prolific rushing season in FBS history: Barry Sanders set the bar at 2,628. With two games remaining -- the Big Ten title game next week against Ohio State, and a bowl appearance, Gordon needs to average 184 yards over those two contests to match Sanders.Nothing like 76 points to punctuate a season. Louisiana Tech, led by son-of-Lou coach Skip Holtz, hammered Rice 76-31 to win the West division of Conference USA Saturday. The prize: a date with 11-1 Marshall for the league title next weekend.Danny Shelton and the Washington defense dominated the Apple Cup. The Huskies defensive line caused plenty of havoc against rival Washington State in frigid conditions, with each starting defensive lineman recording at least a half-sack and tackle for lo s on the night. Shelton before bringing down Cougars QB Luke Falk.Boise State rolled to the MWC title game with its blowout of Utah State. The got the scoring started early and kept it going throughout in a blowout win over a nine-win Aggies squad that was looking to reach the conference title game. Running back must have been upset about not being , rushing for 229 yards and five touchdowns against a previously stout defense.*Follow Chase Goodbread on Twitter *.