ESPN made the case on Sunday for nine different teams to hold the No. 1 spot in the first College Football Playoff rankings reveal later this month.

Oregon was one of those nine. The Ducks (5-0, 2-0 Pac-12) are looking like the class of the conference at this point in the season with the way they’ve dismantled nearly every team they’ve faced. Of course, the picture in the Pac-12 title race (and the CFP) will get clearer next Saturday when Oregon meets Washington.

As things stand now, though, here’s the case ESPN’s Heather Dinich made for Oregon to be the No. 1 team in the country:

There’s no greater reason than Oregon’s sheer dominance to this point. With the exception of its road win at Texas Tech, Oregon has manhandled its opponents on both sides of the ball, scoring at least 42 points in each game while holding teams to no more than 10. While the committee doesn’t ask teams to run up the score, it does look for them to leave no doubt they are the better team against lesser competition, and Oregon has done that. The Ducks also have a true Heisman contender in quarterback Bo Nix, and that has been a trait of past CFP teams.

Saturday’s game against the Huskies will be important. Texas Tech hasn’t looked how folks expected it to in Joey McGuire’s second year. And the Colorado win, Dinich wrote, said more about the Buffs than it did the Ducks.

Teams like Oklahoma and Florida State have signature victories against ranked teams in huge matchups. Oregon doesn’t have that. Not yet. There are plenty of opportunities to come later in the season.

Right now, though, Dinich writes that fact is the primary case against Oregon in the top spot.