Oklahoma just put Iowa State in their place.
Ohio State was trailing NW in 3rd qtr, but pulled it out.
I expect ND to get carted off the field in body bags if Clemson is healthy, but they will magically remain in the top 4.

As far as conference love and pedigree-philia go, UCF not only beat Baylor and Auburn in previous bowls, they made a better showing on the road against Joe Burrow's LSU bowl team in 2018 than #6 UF did at home against a 3-5 team. Florida not falling below 7 escapes me.

It seems like a shrewd lawyer could make some sort of anti-trust argument against ESPN Bowls, Inc... or maybe a discrimination suit that financial benefits from bowl wins and subsequent exposure should be made more fairly available to all (state schools and private, regardless of conference). Unfortunately, the biggest and most powerful groups of lawyer alums are those from the schools already getting the preferential treatment.

An 8-team playoff is certainly feasible, and infinitely more fair than the 4-team arrangement. The claim that #9 will claim unfairness has a lot less legitimacy than similar claims made by the currently excluded #5-8 teams.

Rant over.

go away mike. thankx

Every suggested solution brings additional problems. Limit to conference champs? What if the Gators had beaten Bama last night? That's the reason basketball went from 8 to 16, then 32, then 64, then 72. Some nobody beat consensus no. 1 (and undefeated) UNC in the ACC conf championship finals. Move it to 8 teams? How is no. 8 two loss Gawja more deserving than undefeated (no. 9) Cinncinati? Also, the season becomes too long for "students" with finals, etc and it could come at the expense of traditional rivals at the end of the season. What happens to Mich/OSU, UF/F$U, etc? There are far too many problems and still you would not come up with a true champion. Just go back to the old bowl system. You young guys weren't around then, but, it was far, far more satisfying and entertaining and it MEANT SOMETHING to be a conf champ and bowl champ. We weren't perpetually pissed off at the "unfairness of it all". WE WERE HAPPIER THEN. Who REALLY gives two shits whether we have a "true" no. 1? It isn't even possible.

Ooops, please amend the following statement from my previous post. Don't want to tick Dave off.

"Move it to 8 teams? How is no. 8 two loss Gawja more deserving than undefeated (no. 9) Cinncinati or 5 loss UCF?