College Football Playoff: Quarterfinal takeaways, analysis

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We're three-quarters of the way through the College Football Playoff quarterfinals, and we've gotten three decidedly different games. In all three games, the favorites burst out to early leads. The Penn State Nittany Lions quickly led the Boise State Broncos 14-0 before finding themselves in a dogfight that required a huge fourth-quarter performance. The Texas Longhorns burst out to a 14-3 lead over the Arizona State Sun Devils but briefly fell apart in the fourth quarter and needed overtime heroics to survive and advance. And for the second straight round, the Ohio State Buckeyes put together an almost perfect 60 minutes,…