College Football Playoff history suggests that it will be about as good as it gets for two of the teams in the top four.
Playoff rankings will be released Tuesday night and history suggests that it will be about as good as it gets for two of the teams in the top four.
Next year, the CFP expands to 12 teams. Four is the magic number for now and rarely in the nine previous years of the playoff have all four teams in the initial rankings made it to the actual playoff.Just once have the initial CFP rankings revealed the eventual playoff field. That was 2020, the pandemic season, which was far from normal in so many ways.It doesn't matter all that much because there are plenty of games left to sort it out.
The only time Alabama was not in the initial top four but still made the playoff was 2014, when it started sixth.
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