Fox Sports broadcaster Tim Brando raised the ire of many in these parts when he suggested in a radio interview that there were certain "privileged" programs (such as Alabama and Ohio State) who often got the benefit of the doubt when it came to rankings.
But today I'm going to focus on something else Brando said, that Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson are "almost automatic" to make the College Football Playoff this year. Could that possibly be true?
In other words, has the College Football Playoff become too predictable? Let's examine that question, using the top four from preseason AP poll rankings and then the final CFP rankings for the four years of its existence:
2014 preseason (final ranking in parentheses):
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