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Forde-Yard Dash: The Questions That Loom Over Potential Playoff Teams

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (popcorn sold separately in Oxford, at reduced prices):

FIRST QUARTER: THE SIX DEBATES THAT COULD LOOM OVER THE PLAYOFF

It was a good weekend for College Football Playoff housekeeping. We discarded quite a bit of clutter—out went September flashes Arkansas, Mississippi, Notre Dame and Maryland. We dusted off a relic (Michigan) and put it back on display alongside a shiny new addition (Cincinnati). And we kept mantle space reserved for two prize possessions (Georgia and Alabama).

But there will always be different opinions about how accessorize a place, and nothing creates debate like the playoff mansion.