The new, 12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative.
Perfect or 100% fair? Well, nobody ever believed that.
The first expanded playoff bracket unveiled Sunday left a presumably deserving Alabama team on the sideline in favor of an SMU squad that finished with a better record after playing a schedule that was not as difficult.
It ranked undefeated Oregon first but set up a possible rematch against Ohio State, the team that came closest to beating the Ducks this year.
It treated underdog Boise State like a favorite and banged-up Georgia like a world beater at No. 2.
It gave Ohio State home-field advantage
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