The 12-team playoff was never about giving 12 teams a chance to win the national title...it was about giving more teams the necessary illusion that they could reach the mountaintop and expanding a widely viewed television product.
The first-round games' lack of competitiveness is less a commentary on the playoff than on the sport it represents. College football is a sport of dud games, all the time, at all levels.
ProFootballTalk opined, 'A 12-team college football playoff sounds like a great idea until it's all lesser teams going on the road to play better teams in late December and getting their asses kicked.'
Kirk Herbstreit suggested that Indiana, an 11-1 team, did not belong on the field with Notre Dame, highlighting the gap in competition at the playoff level.
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