Play your way into the College Football Playoff if you can. Talk your way in if you must.

Notre Dame's eye test, Alabama's strength of schedule will head up talking points among CFP's bubble teams.

Texas, Vanderbilt, Miami coaches join the battle of rhetoric.

It’s time to play choose your talking points .

Line your stomach, gird your loins or cover your ears, because college football ’s amateur politicians will now begin to attempt to talk their way into the playoff , with imperfect resumes.

First up on the stump went Texas coach Steve Sarkisian. He dialed up passionate rhetoric with all the requisite gusto after the Longhorns’ win against No. 3 Texas A&M , saying it would “be a disservice to our sport” if his team, which lost three times, including once to woebegone Florida,

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