We spent a lot of time this week pondering what the end of this season might hold for Iowa and that's fun -- very fun when you'e 8-0, in fact. But now it's time to put our speculation hats aside and get back to the thing that really, truly matters: the games. Dreaming of a bigger, better tomorrow, of what might be in the pot of gold at the end of Iowa's rainbow is fine and good, but the games are what we care about. They're what we'll remember and what we'll cherish.
We won't remember the hours we spent debating why Alabama was ranked ahead of Iowa in the first College Playoff Committee rankings, or wringing our hands about the committee's oft-incoherent logic, or gritting our teeth about the committee oohing and aahing over splashy, high-scoring offenses.