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Ranking College Football's Rosters for 2016

The sky is blue, the Earth is round and when you have better players, you win more games.

Certainly, winning big in college football takes great coaching, enormous support staffs, state-of-the-art training facilities and plenty of luck. But whoever has the most talented roster, has a head start in the race for conference and national championships

Seven of the eight teams to have made the College Football Playoff thus far, ranked no lower than 14th in roster talent while five of the eight Playoff berths went to teams ranked in the top four nationally.