NCAA Bowl Season - In the relatively short College Football Playoff era, we have seen a number of trends in how the selection committee picks teams, and among the most obvious is the significance they ascribe to conference championship games. Teams have made it in thanks to big wins in them—such as Ohio State in 2014, which parlayed a 59-0 victory over Wisconsin into the No. 4 seed and their most recent national title. But teams have also been left out for losses, even close ones—in 2017, Wisconsin again lost the Big Ten title to the Buckeyes (this time by six points) and fell from the top four.
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