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One of the biggest changes this season in the 12-team College Football Playoff is the guarantee that the five highest-ranked conference champions will earn the chance to compete for the national title -- and coaches have realized it also creates an extremely difficult path for any runner-up teams that reach the CFP. The four highest-ranked conference champions will earn a first-round bye, but if the loser of the league championship game earns one of the at-large bids on Selection Day, that team will have to win four straight games to win the national title and will play a total of 17 games. It would be a unique scenario -- and an unprecedented run in the sport -- but Ohio State coach Ryan Day said he has talked with Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti about how the CFP format will impact playing in the league title game.
