The College Football Playoff is an evolving organism that the Power Conference commissioners can\u2019t stop interfering with.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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