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College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: What upsets like Vanderbilt over Alabama remind us

We do it every year.

Alabama has only four possible losses on its whole schedule! It’ll be favored in every game the rest of the season!

Missouri’s whole season comes down to only two games!

Tennessee’s path to the Playoff is a cakewalk now!

And every year, college football reminds us about the foolishness of making assumptions.

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A sport built around 18- to 22-year-olds’ performance from week to week is always going to invite variance, and now the sport is played with rosters that fluctuate wildly from season to season and teams fly thousands of miles across the country for conference games.