The four-team playoff era has come to an end. It was a heck of a decade.
In all, 86 different teams spent at least one week ranked by the playoff committee, 25 were ranked in the top four, eight were ranked No. 1 and six won national titles.
But that math only takes us so far. What we really need is a full accounting of the four-team playoff era, a ranking slathered in math but ultimately as arbitrary as anything the committee has given us in the past decade.
Of course, as the committee has taught us, there's no easy calculus for this type of exercise.