It all starts with winning your respective division so you can then play in the Conference Championship. To that point, statistically every team is still a "contender" with regard to winning their division but those teams who are undefeated have a bit more wiggle room than others. At the moment Oregon is in the best of all possible positions after three games.

One has to think if Taggart has any reasonable "one season turnaround" then Andersen is in trouble at OSU in year three and especially if they finish below the Ducks.  Yes they beat the Ducks last year but they still finished in 5th place and it would have been 6th place had they lost to Oregon. 

Yes Ken Burns, The Vietnam War is riveting and disturbing. If one or more persons in position of power had trusted how they felt inside(but were saying differently to the public) the course of the conflict might could have gone very differently.  My entire years in public education we were in involved in Vietnam. It was always present.