COLUMBUS, Ohio — The College Football Playoff last season consisted of No. 1 Clemson, No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Alabama, the eventual national champion. In the first College Football Playoff rankings announced Tuesday night, Alabama was No. 1, Clemson was No. 2, Georgia was No. 6 and Oklahoma was No. 7. Alabama and Clemson missing the playoff would be a surprise at this point, and Georgia and Oklahoma aren’t out of it. That’s the group of teams with whom Ohio State should be lumped. There’s a top five programs in college football right now, and it matches the top five teams from a year ago, when the Buckeyes were the first team out of a playoff. Ohio State has enough talent, tradition, resources and recent success to demand and deserve to be compared to the best of the best. But for a moment, let’s look at…
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