Enter the bureaucrats. The true rulers of the Republic.
The time has come for the people with the final say on college football's postseason to hold their first meetings in that swankiest of spots, the Gaylord Texan Resort. The time has come for the 13-person College Football Playoff selection committee to reveal its first rankings of the 2017 season (Tuesday, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN App). That means the time has come for us to yell and scream and overreact to whatever list it hands to us from on high. And by on high, I mean a conference room on the third floor of the hotel.