By this time one week from now, all of the mystery will be gone. We will know who the conference champions are, what dozen teams made the final College Football Playoff cut, which teams were left on the doorstep holding their spreadsheets of failed proof and who is going where for the holidays.
The never-ending 15-week roller coaster with no brakes that has been the 2024 college football regular season will have finally pulled back into the queue for oil, maintenance and a chance to catch its grass-stained breath before it rolls back out for a much shorter -- though not nearly as short as it used to be -- run through Bowl Season (©) and the College Football Playoff.