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The College Football Playoff is set with four teams for 2016.

Now for the tie-breaker: Penn State made it to the Big Ten title game, something Ohio State did not do.

Winning the title in a Power Five conference is worth more than the equivalent of a pat on the back. Just three days after the announcement that Ohio State and Clemson would play in the College Football Playoff semifinal, the game has sold out.

Long scoring droughts have plagued Penn State all season. How does this happen? And Ohio State doesn’t play for the Big Ten title, but its resume is judged to be one of the nation’s four best. The system is partly based off of statistical analysis but is largely influenced by the opinions of a 12-person panel that consists of athletic directors, former head coaches and others. He became a grandfather for the first time and then learned that his team was one of the chosen ones.

Ohio State is just 2-6 ATS over its last eight games, but an impressive double-overtime win over MI locked up the Buckeyes’ playoff spot despite their lack of a conference title.

If either Ohio State or Washington would be blown out in a playoff game, Penn State and its fans understandably would claim it would have been more competitive. I don’t normally care about watching the actual TV special every week when the committee announces the Top 25, because let’s face it, talking heads don’t shut up about it for the rest of week. The Ohio State win was a bit of a fluke given how they scored, but the Nittany Lions won because their defensive front seven kicked the Buckeyes offensive line’s rear end from start to finish. It’s similar to a year ago, when there when there also weren’t enough.500 teams to fill all the spots.

The Buckeyes are the first team to reach the playoff in its three-year history without winning their conference. Well he said it himself Franklin feels good about the program going forward.

Now that the score is tied, some will say that Penn State lost to Pitt and MI.

No. 1 Alabama (13-0) will face No. 4 Washington (12-1) in one semifinal and second-seeded Clemson (12-1) meets third-seeded Ohio State (11-1) in the other on December 31. Simple enough, and everybody that should be in the playoffs is in. After starting strong Wednesday, there was a four-minute stretch in the first period in which the Nittany Lions failed to make a shot from the field.

Additionally, another round of Playoff football would expand the season to 16 games for some teams. Expansion is not something they will do quickly. Expanding to a six-team playoff would make it more of an advantage to get to the two spot. McCaffrey was the runner-up last season for the Heisman Trophy when he broke Barry Sanders’ NCAA record for all-purpose yards in a season with 3,864.

The two schools, who have played 97 times, have a four-game agreement from 2016-19. But maybe you can win or lose a chance to play for a national championship in that month. Instead, it was between Penn State and Washington. The Nittany Lions suffered two losses, one a 39-point loss to MI and a 42-39 loss to Pittsburgh. However, the Nittany Lions proved that they are more than worthy of competing with the best for the National Championship.

This is the third year for the College Football Playoff ranking. The committee felt that this season, Washington had a little more in its buckets than did Penn State.

The great thing about college football, we are told, is that every game matters. His career has included a 17-year stretch as host of the Kickoff Call In Show on the University of Tennessee’s prestigious Vol Network.

But a lot changed on Sept 8, 2014. The game can be seen on ESPN.