The College Football Playoff's first round was, in every sense, imperfect. Certainly, the television ratings spoke to that, with a massive decline in viewership from last year's, the first of a 12-team CFP field.
USA Today's Matt Hayes believes the simple answer to fixing the CFP would've been including big brands like the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Texas Longhorns in the field instead of the two Group of 5 teams that were on the wrong end of blowouts, the Tulane Green Wave and James Madison Dukes.
No. 11 Tulane lost 41-10 to the No.