The New Year's Eve ratings debacle gave this year's College Football Playoff a sour taste, but what the new four-team tournament has done is dominate the national conversation during the month of November.
No matter where you turn, everybody is talking about who's in, who's out and who has work left to do in order to impress the College Football Playoff selection committee.
In the SEC, that should be a loaded conversation in 2016.
Defending national champion Alabama deserves the right to be in that conversation regardless of roster attrition, one more step forward should bring Tennessee into the national picture and several other SEC teams could jump into it if chips fall their way.