re: The answer is an 8 team playoff set up this way

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While I don't disagree, and this certainly is a playing the result answer, this was only so because they made it.

But none of us were certain they had made it so even though losing their division seemingly helped in the long run, we simply didn't know at the time, and I think that matters.

I guess my main point is, they lost the ability to control their own destiny, as much as one team can in a system where technically no team controls their own destiny.

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If you go up to Urban on Wednesday of last week and ask him if they'd rather play Wisconsin in a rematch or preserve their 11-1 record, what do you believe his genuine answer would be? Man to man, I think he'd tell you they'd take their chances at 11-1 and #2 in the CFP at that point.