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EXPANDED COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF ADDS ANOTHER NEW WRINKLE: COLD WEATHER

First-round games at campus sites this weekend brought the potential for wintry
conditions that are usually not part of the playoff conversation at the college
level.

December 21, 2024 at 6:02 a.m. ESTToday at 6:02 a.m. EST
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Ohio State Coach Ryan Day will be bundled up Saturday night in Columbus when the
Buckeyes host Tennessee in the first round of the College Football Playoff. (Jay
LaPrete/AP)
By Chuck Culpepper

A front of disappointment has swept across the land since Dec. 8 and has
intensified this waning week. It appears the four first-round College Football
Playoff games might go off without any memorable insult from weather conditions,
lending all four bouts an orderly legitimacy. How dreary.


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Mass daydreams about the new 12-team format and its on-campus games included the
idea of storybook weather in which the NFL long has specialized but college
football long has missed by playing its most meaningful games in the vicinity of
palms. Some fans dreamed of some team from the haughty SEC going up the
latitudes to meet some form of Arctic doom set to please three-fourths of the
nation.


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 * Jesse Dougherty
   CFP opens in South Bend, and Notre Dame makes itself right at home
   Earlier today
   
 * John Feinstein
   Ivy League football will finally enter the FCS playoffs. It’s about time.
   December 20, 2024
   
 * Matt Bonesteel
   Good seats still available for Penn State’s first CFP home game
   December 20, 2024
   

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