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Dreaming of a White Week Before Christmas
In the 26 seasons in which college football made varying degrees of effort to pick a national champion on the field, one thing was consistent from the BCS to the four-team CFP: the games that mattered were played in a controlled climate, indoors or in great weather cities. That changes this season when the expanded playoff will see teams rated five to eight host first-round CFP games on campus on Friday, Dec.