Two things have been true of the College Football Playoff committee's first eight years of selections.
First, the committee has almost certainly gotten the top four correct on every occasion. For any debates over Ohio State in 2014 or Alabama in 2017, the eventual results -- a national championship for both -- served as the final word in any argument.
But the second detail worth noting about the committee's process is that, in the end, the decisions have almost entirely been easy. Even those mildly controversial choices actually represented the easiest possible solution for the committee.