AP Top 25 - Week 16

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SC will need to win the SEC to be a 1 seed and UCLA and USC are both not locks to be a 1 seed. There is a month of ball left to be played and no team is a lock at this point. UConn has the clearest path to win out with ND being second. Texas, USC and UCLA could possibly lose two more games and that would drop them out too. The picture is coming into focus but not quite yet.

Even more impactful is the possibility of a single “bad loss.” Both UCLA & USC barely survived on Sunday vs Michigan State (22) and Washington (unranked) respectively. Upsets are likely to happen in the P4 conference tournaments, particularly if you’re facing a bubble team that’s fighting for their tournament life.