Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (“Careful What You Wish For” T-shirts sold separately in Lincoln):
FIRST QUARTER: PLAYOFF OPENING ARGUMENTS
The College Football Playoff selection committee meets this week and will release its first rankings Tuesday night. The fact that this largely older group is insisting on meeting in person, amid a pandemic, every week, when the only rankings that matter come out December 20th, is one of the things that makes college football the most vexing sport on the planet. Hopefully this goes off without infection. We’ll see.