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College football offers no drama with chosen playoff teams

If you wanted suspense on Sunday you were better off renting "Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock.

There was little edge-of-your-seat action in college football, once known for its dramatic pauses and soap-opera organ music.

The more they get this right, the more they get it, well, different.

Sixteen years of hairpin turns under the old Bowl Championship Series have parted way to calm, order and fairness.

What kind of legitimate outfit are they running here?

The first year of the College Football Playoff had very little taint because it insisted on featuring an esteemed body of panelists who threatened to dignify the entire process.