With a few weeks of games under our belts, I'm glad to say that we have college football this season. I was afraid that with the pandemic that it would be impossible to play games this year. I'm just glad the ACC, Big 12 and SEC decided to go ahead and play football. I strongly believe this decision to play, along with the NFL being successful in starting their season with little to no issues, this forced the B1G and PAC-12 to seriously re-consider their decision to postpone all fall sports until 2021. I also think the PAC-12's agreement with Quidel to provide daily testing was the final piece needed. I'm glad all Power 5 conferences and all Group of 5 conferences in FBS will now be playing football this season. It will be interesting to see how many games each of the main contenders in all conferences can get in this year and how the playoff committee is going to make their selections. This year, more so than any other year in the entire short run of the playoffs so far, the playoff committee is going to have to be more subjective and look more at how teams perform on the field as compared to schedule strength, since everyone is playing a conference-only, reduced schedule this year. I'm sure they will also include common opponents, but the "eye test" is going to be more critical this year. I sure hope all committee members do their due diligence and watch all games and teams so they can appropriately measure each team. I guarantee that all teams being considered for the playoffs will not have played the same number of games. For example, Alabama, Ohio St and Oregon/USC. If all these teams play the total number of games scheduled, Alabama will have played 10, Ohio St 9 and Oregon/USC 7. Can an undefeated PAC-12 team (7-0) make it to the playoffs? Should they be considered? This is where the subjectivity comes in to play. I think we'll get our answer when we see the first playoff committee poll on November 17, 2020.
