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Eighth Or Ninth: The One Spot That Decides Ole Miss' December
One spot in a ranking is the difference between Ole Miss playing a first-round playoff game in Oxford and Ole Miss getting on a plane. Then the Senate changed the business the whole sport runs on.
The structure, from the College Football Playoff's own site: 12 teams, seeds 1-4 sit out the first round, seeds 5-8 play at their own stadium, seeds 9-12 travel, and the No. 9 seed travels to the No. 8 seed. First-round games are December 18-19.
The honest part: the AP and coaches polls have no input into any of that. The only ranking that assigns a seed is the selection committee's, and its first…
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