COLUMBUS, Ohio — Welcome to Week Eight of Clemson-Alabama Watch on the road to the College Football Playoff. No program has more trips to the College Football Playoff than Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State. Yet all three have never been in it at the same time. All three are a win away from making that happen on Saturday. This is how it was always supposed to be this season: The country’s best programs in position to be the top three seeds in the College Football Playoff while a fourth team spends the year trying to separate itself. That team has done so at the expense of one of the Big Three without having a Heisman Trophy-caliber quarterback. The idea is simple on Saturday: Win, and you’re in. Lose and pray you’ve aced the eye test so well that it doesn’t matter, a route that seems unlikely for at least two…
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