So Texas road-grades Oklahoma State ... Michigan out-wheezes Iowa in the Suffocation Bowl ... Florida State prevails in "Suffocation Bowl II: The Worst Offense Is A Good Defense", and ...
Oh my God it's chaos! Chaos, I tell you!
Because Alabama knocked off No. 1 and unbeaten Georgia in the SEC title game, and now there will be churn, now there will be falling chunks of sky, now there will be DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER!
But only if the College Football Playoff committee completely loses its mind, or fails to break its shackles of servitude to That One Conference (hint: It begins with "S").
See, this is easy-peasy, or at least it oughta be. The four teams in the CFP are, in order, Michigan, Washington, Texas and Florida State. Or, Florida State and Texas. No one else need apply.
But of course others will, mainly Alabama and Georgia, because, come on, it's not a CFP without the SEC. Georgia had won 26 straight games until last night. Alabama is Alabama. One or both has to get in over those posers from the Big 12 and ACC, right?
Not in this locality, Bubba.
In this locality, here's the deal, in a neat little package tied up with a bow: This isn't a beauty contest. Nor should it be an ancestral right. It doesn't matter if Alabama and Georgia are legacy Deltas, like Kent Dorfman in "Animal House." Winning trumps everything, or should.
And so one-loss Texas is in and one-loss Alabama is out because Texas whupped the Crimson Tide by 10 in Tuscaloosa.
And Michigan, Washington and Florida State are in because they're undefeated champions of Power 5 conferences, while 'Bama lost to Texas and Georgia lost its conference title game.
Easy-peasy.
Or, you know, not. Probably not.
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