Admiral Ackbar said it best. “It’s a trap!”
It’s the warning from “Return of the Jedi” that always applies to college football. It’s the trap game that every College Football Playoff contender experiences at some point in the season. It could come as a sandwich game between two rivals, a tough place to play or against a team of equal strength that just falls on the wrong weekend at the wrong time.
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Some trap games are simply unavoidable.