The last year of the four-team College Football Playoff, fittingly, will present the selection committee with its toughest decision yet — one so hard and fraught with political drama that the 13 humans probably are going to wish they were Bowl Championship Series computers for the next 24 hours.
Based on the rankings entering this weekend, only two teams are clearly in the field: No. 2 Michigan, the Big Ten champion, and No. 3 Washington, the Pac-12 champion. Three Power-Five conference champions with traditionally locked-in résumés — No. 4 Florida State, No. 7 Texas and No.