After going 13-0 this season, the Michigan Wolverines are tied for the fifth-most College Football Playoff appearances in this being the 10th season of the format. Every single team tied with them or ahead of them on that list has won at least one national title in that span except for one: the Oklahoma Sooners.
Like Michigan, Oklahoma went to three-straight College Football Playoffs from 2018-2020; its other appearance was in 2016, the second year of the CFP’s existence. In three of those seasons, the Sooners lost to the championship runner-up each time. However, their most recent was an embarrassing loss to a Joe Burrow-led LSU team that was one of the best in college football history.