Are you sick of Alabama-Clemson national championship games? Well, how about the Tide and the Tigers in the first round of a 12-team expanded playoff?
Using the CFP selection committee’s latest rankings, Nick Saban would host Dabo Swinney in what would surely be an electric environment in Tuscaloosa. The winner would go on to play … top-seeded Georgia. Oh, what fun!
There are plenty of other intriguing first-round games that involve teams from very different geographic and cultural footprints of this great nation of ours. Gus Malzahn and his UCF Knights travel to the Big House in mid-December (hello, cold!), Utah plays a game on the bayou and the Vols host Penn State. There is potential for a few titanic quarterfinals, like Michigan-USC in the Rose Bowl!
