15 THINGS TO WATCH IN 2021

Matt Hinton

1. The Usual Suspects The College Football Playoff was a long-anticipated, hard-won development, and entering its eighth year of existence, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the sport who doesn’t consider the bracket a great leap forward over what came before it. At the same time, as expansion fever reached critical mass last winter, it was harder than ever to deny that the four-team format was already beginning to feel a bit stale. And it’s no wonder why: Year in, year out, it continues to be monopolized by the same four teams. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma have thoroughly dominated the Playoff era, accounting for a combined 22 conference championships since 2014, 20 of the 28 available CFP slots and 17 of 21 CFP victories. Since 2015, some…

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