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Mercedes technical chief Paddy Lowe says anyone with an ounce of intelligence will know sabotage was not the reason for Lewis Hamiltons engine failure at the Malaysian Grand Prix.Mercedes has revealed a big-end bearing failed on Hamiltons engine when it burst into flames while he led the Malaysian Grand Prix, leaving him 23 points behind teammate Nico Rosberg in the championship. The failure -- and Hamiltons initial quotes to media -- triggered conspiracy theories online, something Mercedes has already had to refute this year after he suffered engine trouble during qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix.The conspiracy theories continued despite the fact Hamilton clarified he had been referring to God when he said somebody doesnt want me to win.When asked about the insinuation in Fridays press conference, Lowe responded: I cant agree with you that the driver hinted that there was sabotage. Lewis has been very clear, certainly with us, that thats out of the question.Anyone with an ounce of intelligence analysing this situation would realise the prospect of us designing a system that would cause a big-end bearing to fail at that precise point in a race...If we were that good we would win everything and control everything at every point. Weve had other failures in the year which were unfortunate.If we were good enough to arrange such sabotage we wouldnt have any failures. I think its a very, very tough business, Formula One, the engineering is operating right at the boundary of performance and therefore things do go wrong. The complexity is incredible and so to engineer something to happen on purpose on a car...Its similar to when people say to us you favour one driver over another, and the idea we might give better equipment to one driver over another. If weve invented something that makes our car quicker of course we want it in both cars because we want to win the race. So we never hold back or would even contemplate it, even if we could engineer it, which we couldnt, so I think anyone intelligent can work all of that out.Lowe admits Hamiltons bad luck is hard to understand statistically and says he is still struggling to comprehend how the world champion had back-to-back qualifying failures in China and Russia this year.I think the thing youve got to bear in mind is that were all very rational people, certainly in the engineering area. We all know that you can throw three double-sixes in a row, that is possible statistically. But yet when you see it done, emotionally you feel how did that happen? We have got a little bit of that scenario with Lewis.We have eight power units out there running around and with the exception of one failure they have all fallen to Lewis this year, on his power unit, and thats something that none of us can understand how things can turn out that way. But it is just the way the dice has been thrown, things do go wrong, we do understand and it just turns out by pure coincidence that has occurred repeatedly on Lewis car.Were gutted about it and we just wish luck wouldnt fall that way, and understandable that Lewis was - as we all were feeling after that blow-up - [thinking] how can that have happened again? Personally I was only just getting over the idea of the consecutive failures he had in qualifying earlier in the year where already you felt the statistics had fallen very, very unfairly.I was very happy for Lewis that he was able to recover his points back up to a level of competition with Nico... So it was a real blow, but we very quickly decided to become rational and accept these things happen, then you move on and look to the future. Marcelo Balboa Jersey .Y. -- Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo. Russell Canouse Jersey . 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Welcome to the club, No. 4 Washington.The 12 members of the College Football Playoff selection committee changed course in their second official rankings of the season and added undefeated Washington to their top four one week after snubbing the Huskies in favor of one-loss Texas A&M.The rest of the top four remained the same with No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Michigan leading the way, followed by No. 4 Washington, No. 5 Ohio State and No. 6 Louisville. Another bonus for Washington was the fact that its next opponent, USC, jumped into the rankings at No. 20 after winning five straight.Last weeks No. 4, Texas A&M, dropped to No. 8 after losing to Mississippi State, while Nebraska sank from No. 10 to No. 19 after losing 62-3 to Ohio State.Louisville jumped up one spot, but that likely was more a result of A&M falling than it was a convincing win at Boston College. The Cardinals are still looking up at Ohio State in the race between one-loss teams.Heres what the bracket would look like today:As for the other major bowls, heres a projection based on the current rankings:The Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual still gets the Pac-12 champ, but since Washington is in the semifinal, it would choose the next highest-ranked Pac-12 team, No. 12 Colorado. Since Big Ten champion Michigan? also is in a semifinal, it would take the conferences next highest-ranked team, No. 5 Ohio State.The Allstate Sugar Bowl is guaranteed the Big 12 champ, which would be No. 11 Oklahomma, and because SEC champ Alabama is in the semifinal, it would take the next highest-ranked SEC team, No.dddddddddddd 8 Texas A&M.The Capital One Orange Bowl is guaranteed the ACC champion, but because Clemson is in a semifinal, it would take the second-ranked ACC team, which would be No. 6 Louisville. The Orange Bowl then chooses the next highest-ranked team from the SEC, Big Ten or Notre Dame. In this case, it would be No. 7 Wisconsin.The highest-ranked Group of 5 champion is guaranteed a spot in a New Years Six bowl, so No. 21 Western Michigan would go to the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. It can then choose an at-large team from any FBS conference, and No. 9 Auburn is the highest-ranked team available.Heres what New Years Eve and New Years Day could look like, based on todays rankings:Dec. 308 p.m. ET: Capital One Orange Bowl: No. 6 Louisville vs. No. 7 WisconsinDec. 313 p.m. or 7 p.m. ET: College Football Playoff semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl: No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Washington3 p.m. or 7 p.m. ET: College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl: No. 2 Clemson vs. No. 3 MichiganJan. 21 p.m. ET: Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: No. 9 Auburn vs. No. 21 Western Michigan5 p.m. ET: Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual: No. 5 Ohio State vs. No. 12 Colorado8:30 p.m. ET: Allstate Sugar Bowl: No. 8 Texas A&M vs. No. 11 Oklahoma ' ' '