Pundits and talking heads spent most of Saturday night and Sunday morning debating whether Oklahoma, Ohio State or Georgia belonged in the final spot for the College Football Playoff.
The Sooners – who seemed positioned by most to take over the final spot in the CFP after winning their conference championship, avenging their only loss and vanquishing their Texas 39-27 all in one day – were resisted by many in the national media as being too one-dementional to get into the postseason.
Georgia, on the back of a 35-28 loss to No. 1 Alabama in which the Dawgs led until just 64 seconds remained on the clock, had somehow seized the storylines and rode a wave of national momentum from people like Kirk Herbstreit, who inexplicably thought the Bulldogs deserved to move up a spot because of the defeat.