As the Playoff quickly approaches, four teams are leading the pack, but upcoming conference championship games could upend the rankings.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (humble pie, the Thanksgiving weekend dessert nobody wants, sold separately in Columbus):
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Conference Championship Games Are Here to Jeopardize the Playoff
Assuming the College Football Playoff selection committee sees things the same way as most of the rest of us (a risky assumption, admittedly), four teams have separated themselves from the rest of the nation. They are Georgia, Michigan, TCU and USC, and now, all four of them are tasked with playing conference championship games that can only hurt them, not help (1).