It’s The First Round Of The College Football Playoff, Charlie Brown

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about.

Israel: Last year when we did this, the assumption was that the committee would finagle things around to provide fewer potential blowouts and unwatchable games. Since then, I've started to put together that ESPN might be more committed to their Survivor-esque weekly playoff tribunal than to actually producing good games. Even the games that ostensibly look worthwhile seem like they could be terrible. Alabama has been stinking it up for the past month; Oklahoma hasn’t been dependable at any point this year; Miami and Carson Beck could absolutely implode at any moment; and Texas A&M is … well, Texas A&M. Suddenly the Gasparilla Bowl between Memphis and NC State seems like the only must-watch game of the weekend. Unfortunately, there is only one solution: MORE EXPANSION.