I think there's just way too much kneejerking over the first round of games which weren't too dissimilar from NFL Wildcard games which usually go chalk and at times are massive blowouts between a team that did well and a team that barely got in. I think the massive difference is the home teams in the CFP will all have such a tremendous advantage over the visiting team because that's naturally baked in. A team going to visit Jerry World isn't going to be as intimidated or unused to that type of environment. Ultimately after a few years of this, we may just find that 8 was probably the better number as most of the teams that make it to the 2nd round will be the top 8 ranked teams and maybe it should've just been a push to go to 8 and then 12 or 14 later if it made sense. The SEC blowhards can't say Alabama, Ole Miss, or South Carolina definitely deserved a spot when Tennessee's performance nullifies that entirely given 1 of them already lost to Tennessee and then the remaining all beat each other. No one got screwed here. You were left out because you lost 3 games, one of which was to a not that great opponent or to each other.