The opening month of the 2022 season has hardly changed the expected outlook of the College Football Playoff race. Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State entered as clear favorites to reach the CFP, and consensus opinion hasn't moved on them.
The notable storyline, however, is that nobody else has joined the trio.
By no means is this a shocking non-development. Sample sizes are obviously small, considering we're simply four weeks into the campaign and early schedules are often favorable because of nonconference play. But we haven't seen a program that has flat-out wrecked every opponent and has played a convincing level of competition.