Did the CFP Committee and Yurachek get it right?

Ole Miss fans watch a drone show at the end of the third quarter in the first round of the College Football Playoff against Tulane at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss., on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. | Lauren Witte/Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesWhen the College Football Playoff bracket was revealed, chaos followed, as it always does. Fans argued, pundits debated, and fingers were pointed squarely at the selection committee and its chairman, Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek. Now that the first round of the CFP is officially in the books, we can finally ask the question that actually matters: Did the committee get it right?

Under the rules and circumstances they were…