Week 0 is here. On Saturday, Farmageddon will kick off the college football season in Ireland and begin the process of whittling down from 136 teams in FBS football to the 12 that make the College Football Playoff.
It’s the second year of the 12-team format, though this time with tweaked seeding to avoid Boise State getting a bye to the CFP quarterfinals as the fourth-highest-ranked conference champion. Now, the five highest-ranked conference champions will still be guaranteed a spot in the CFP, but will get no preferential seeding from the committee.
Other than the seeding snafu, it’s safe to say that Year 1 of the 12-team era was a resounding success.