Who’s in? Who’s out? The big questions loom during the first season of the new College Football Playoff. A 13-member selection committee eventually pick four teams to compete for the national title. We’re still more than a month away from our first glimpse of what the selection committee may be thinking, but one thing is almost certain: a Big Ten team won’t make the cut. Instead, this first playoff could be relying on a heavy dose of the Southeastern Conference. As hard as it is for many of those who live North of the Mason-Dixon line to hear, it’s true. The SEC will have at least one — the conference champion — and possibly two teams in the first College Football Playoff. It’s not so far-fetched when you consider the SEC has eight teams ranked in both the Associated Press and coaches’ top 25 polls and six of those teams were undefeated after the first three weeks of play. With so many talented teams, it’s hard not to assume the discussion should veer to which two SEC teams could make the cut. “I think the conversation has shifted to – is one team in from the SEC — to is there the possibility of two teams from the SEC can get in?” Joe Tessitore of the SEC Network said Friday in Gainesville. …
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