RJ Young
FOX Sports National College Football Analyst
Now that conference championship weekend has come to an end, the College Football Playoff selection committee have some thinking to do.
It feels like Oregon and Georgia have the top two seeds in the first-ever 12-team CFP locked up, and there are three teams in contention for the other two first-round byes: Big 12 champion Arizona State, ACC champion Clemson, and Mountain West champion Boise State.
The Sun Devils sit at 11-2 with a dominant win over Iowa State in the Big 12 Championship Game. Kenny Dilligham flipped a team that went 3-9 last season into a group that has won six in a row and has averaged 37.2 points per contest during that streak.
Clemson, fresh off a victory over SMU in the ACC title game, didn’t have a ranked win on its résumé before the victory over the Mustangs on Saturday night. Dabo Swinney’s program finished with nine or more wins for the 14th year in a row.
Then there is Boise State, led by do-it-all running back Ashton Jeanty, who has rushed for nearly 2,500 yards this season and can break Barry Sanders’ single-season rushing record (2,629) in BSU’s first CFP game. The Broncos’ only loss this season was on the final play of the game against the top-ranked team in the country.
