Cincinnati enters its Cotton Bowl matchup against top-ranked Alabama as an underdog, and a fairly big one at that as the number has sat at or right around 13 since the matchup was first announced. It is said that good teams win and great teams cover, and it’s the latter that we’ll be discussing here.
The playoff semifinals have been routinely criticized for their lack of intrigue.
Every once in a while, you’ll get an NFL playoff spread that creeps into the double digits with some notable ones even getting in the teens.
But the CFP is a different animal, and one of the biggest criticisms of the way the sport picks its champion is that there is usually one semifinal that is a complete dud.