For once, Cinderella will have a seat at the table — the highest-ranked conference champion from the Group of Five gets an automatic bid, along with the winners of the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12.…
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Those problems are ancient history now that the playoff has expanded to 12 teams this year, giving the sport a true postseason tournament for the first time. The Pac-12 is now the Pac-2 , as Cal, SMU and Stanford moved to the ACC, and Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah were installed as Big 12 members.Pat McAfee claims to have drank outrageous number of Guinnesses on day of wild live show in Ireland
For instance, two of the past three Michigan-Ohio State meetings were for all the marbles — the winner going on to a Big Ten title and playoff berth, the loser to an irrelevant bowl. The Georgia-Alabama SEC championship game last December had the exact same pressure.In a decade under the four-team playoff format, just 15 different schools were selected. Of the 40 available bids, Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia and Michigan accounted for 29 of them.
It allows margin for error. It makes winning your conference the No. 1 priority, knowing that guarantees a spot in the playoff.
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