5 Things We Just Learned About The 12-Team College Football Playoff

The first round of College Football Playoff Rankings is set to come out in just a few days, kicking off the official countdown to the first 12-team playoff in FBS history.There are a lot of unanswered questions in the first season with the new format, but Tony Gerdeman of BuckeyeHuddle.com just got the answers to several of them this week on a call with CFP Executive Director Rich Clark. He joins host Tom Orr to discuss:Can the non-power conference champion be seeded higher than No. 12?What data is the committee going to use to rank the teams?Will the losing team from the conference championship games get extra credit for appearing? Or be punished for suffering an extra loss?Will the committee consider shuffling teams in the final rankings to avoid rematches?How will the committee determine which half of the bracket will feed into the Cotton Bowl semifinal, and which will head to the Orange Bowl?