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Opinion: College Football Playoff pairings feel like a rerun, lack drama

The College Football Playoff has been around for seven seasons now, and at this point we might as well all be Bill Murray waking up to “I Got You Babe” over and over again.

Instead of making the sport more democratic, the CFP has become like the movie "Groundhog Day," with the same small group of elites playing for a national championship and the upstarts getting systematically shut out.

The first part is nobody’s fault. The dominance of Clemson, Alabama and Ohio State over their conferences for this long of a run is unprecedented. It may be as predictable as ever, but it’s hard to argue that the committee screwed up with Alabama vs.