These are the numbers that will decide the College Football Playoff: 11, 10, nine and seven.
Eleven games for teams in the ACC. Ten for the Big 12 and SEC. Nine for the Big Ten, seven for the Pac-12. And that's only if things go according to plan.
In any odd year, the final challenge for the playoff selection committee is to gather a couple dozen data points, punch them through the protocols, make any relevant head-to-head comparisons and settle on the top four. But this isn’t just any odd year — it’s the oddest regular season in college football history.