By Chip Patterson, CBS Sports: When it came to narrowing down the field to four teams in the College Football Playoff race, a popular refrain was, “it will all work itself out” whenever we started to really twist ourselves into knots coming up with chaos scenarios.
A decade of evidence from the four-team format has shown that by the end of conference championship weekend, picking the four best teams wasn’t all that difficult. You could take issue with how the committee seeded some of those teams between Nos. 5-12, but the impact of those rankings was relatively light and mostly altered or impacted non-playoff bowl matchups.
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