Aside from Alabama, the best one-loss teams are Notre Dame, which has overcome key injuries and came very close to climbing out of a 21-point hole in its waterlogged 24-22 loss at Clemson, and Stanford, which has hit its stride offensively in a way that didn’t seem possible after the Cardinal’s opening-day flop at Northwestern. Both have favorable schedules between now and their season-ending date in Palo Alto, where the stakes could be incredibly high. Unlike the teams listed above, though, neither the Irish nor Cardinal control their own fate: To climb into the top four, they’ll both need teams in front of them to lose.