Is there any reason to play the 2018 College Football season? Why not just skip right to the four team playoff? That seems to be the mantra of the national media. They have basically written off 126 teams. The general consensus is that the Final Four will be Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State. You may scoff at some of these teams but when you look around college football, who is better? Is there that much separation between these four and everyone else? There is no simple answer.
In the brief history of the College Football Playoff, there has never been an instance of all four of the top four ranked teams in the AP Preseason Poll make it to the playoff.