The new 12-team College Football Playoff has been mostly a success in its inaugural edition, resulting in two lower seeds meeting in what will still be a highly watched national championship game on Monday (No. 8 Ohio State vs. No. 7 Notre Dame).
However, that doesn’t mean the format didn’t have its hiccups. The very fact that two non-conference champions, in which all five who did and made the bracket lost in their first game, will play for the national title became a point of contention.
Questions also arose over whether the first-round bye the top-four-ranked conference champions received was more a detriment than a reward.
