For the second straight season, the College Football Playoff has introduced some new blood. With its invitation, TCU becomes the 14th program to reach the CFP in its nine-year history, finally getting in after coming achingly close in 2014. And of this year's four participants, only one (Ohio State) has been there more than twice before.
How does this newish blood stack up against the CFP's stalwarts to date? And with the four-team CFP era coming to an end in 2024 thanks to expansion, which are the best college football programs of the playoff era that haven't yet made the final four?