Several teams this season were left on the outside looking in at the College Football Playoff—teams many believed had a legitimate case to be included in the 12-team field.

But with the current criteria and format, that’s always going to happen, especially with Group of Five champions earning automatic bids. That’s exactly what we saw this year with Tulane and James Madison securing the final two spots.

That left out teams like Notre Dame, BYU, Vanderbilt, and Texas—four programs that didn’t always make things easy on themselves but would likely be heavy favorites in a head-to-head matchup against either of those two schools.

During a recent appearance on " The Pivot" podcast, Vanderbilt quarterback and newly named Heisman Trophy finalist Diego Pavia made a bold claim: if a Group

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