NY Times · Dec 30, 2022
Georgia and Ohio State Know All About No. 4 Seeds Making Title Runs
Top-seeded teams have been more likely to win College Football Playoff semifinals. But teams ranked fourth — including Ohio State in 2014 — have won just as many national titles.
Ohio State reached the College Football Playoff as the No. 4 seed and faces top-seeded Georgia in a semifinal at the Peach Bowl.Credit...Barry Reeger/Associated PressATLANTA — He does not like to dwell on past games, the good ones or the bad ones, but Georgia Coach Kirby Smart knows the College Football Playoff’s agonies better than most. Twice in the last eight years, he has stood on the sideline of a playoff game and watched a fourth-ranked team outlast his.
