Week 12 college football winners and losers: Michigan, TCU survive close calls; Central Florida stumbles

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Week 12 college football winners and losers: Michigan, TCU survive close calls; Central Florida stumbles
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Late field goals made Michigan and TCU big winners of Week 12 as they avoided losses that would have damaged their College Football Playoff hopes. PaulMyerberg breaks down the Week 12 winners and losers:

This is new for Michigan, and maybe a reflection of the attention already being paid to next week's win-or-go-home rivalry game against No. 2 Ohio State. Only Maryland had stayed within single digits of the Wolverines, who went into Saturday with an average margin of victory in Big Ten play of 21.9 points per game.

How the games were won doesn't matter. That they were won at all keeps the Horned Frogs and Wolverines in the thick of the playoff picture and continues what had been a very uncontentious and controversy-free postseason race. No. 9 Clemson, No. 19 Notre Dame and others join Michigan and TCU on this week's list of winners and losers: With all due respect to the RedHawks, who have as many wins as the Hurricanes since the start of last season, Clemson routinely makes Miami look like Miami .

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