The College Football Playoff is an evolving organism that the Power Conference commissioners can’t stop interfering with.
This year, it should be much simpler to keep track of because the top 5 conference champions will still earn automatic bids, but it will be a straight seeding model. It may change to 14 or even 16 teams next year with the SEC and Big 10 gobbling up most of the automatic bids.
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