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Ahead of the first College Football Playoff rankings of the 12-team era, there is no shortage of questions about how the selection committee’s first projected bracket will look. But one piece of conventional wisdom involving the Group of 5 could be upended by Boise State.
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The Power 4 conference champions are not guaranteed the four first-round byes, and the Group of 5’s auto-bid reserved for the highest-ranked champion from those leagues is not guaranteed the No. 12 seed, even if most projections have defaulted to that. A 12-1 Mountain West champion Boise State could land
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