College football’s inaugural 12-team playoff is down to the final eight teams.
As an aside, are we going with Elite Eight for this? We have seen a passing reference or two to that term, borrowed from the NCAA basketball tournament, but it truly has yet to stick. But we digress …
But tonight the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff get underway, with No. 6 Penn State taking on No. 3 Boise State in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Three more games come our way on New Year’s Day, beginning with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl between No. 5 Texas and No. 4 Arizona State, followed by the Rose Bowl between
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