Also, head over here for the fully updated bowl season calendar as it fills in, from the New Orleans Bowl through the Rose Bowl. We’ll also add picks, scores, and more to that calendar over time. The road to this Playoff matchup was many things, but clear wasn’t one of them until games finished on championship weekend. As the No. 1 team, Alabama was never going to be headed to the desert (the top team gets regional deference). But getting this matchup meant the committee had to sort through Clemson, Michigan, Ohio state, Penn State, and Washington to fill the remaining three spots in the Playoff four. There were certainly cases for each of those teams. The 2016 Fiesta Bowl is one of the high-water marks in the bowl’s nearly 50-year history, as it will play host to one of the College Football Playoff’s two semifinals for the first time…
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