Editor’s note: This story was originally published Dec. 1 and has since been updated.
College football’s conference championship weekend is here, so we’re just days away from the College Football Playoff selection committee announcing which four teams will compete for a national title in the final year of this format.
The four-team playoff format has delivered a decade of heated debates over the value of things like the eye test versus head-to-head matchups and whether it’s really the four best teams or the four most deserving teams. And the hypothetical scenarios and speculation are abundant until (and often after) the committee makes its decision.
It’s chaos sometimes, and we here at For The Win love and root for chaos.
This season’s playoff race certainly has been an interesting one, and headed into conference championship weekend, there are still eight teams with varying degrees of reasonable paths to the playoff. So since this is the final four-team College Football Playoff, we’re taking a look at some of the biggest chaos scenarios that could create a nightmare for the selection committee and leave fans enraged regardless.
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