Special to the Providence Journal

The final CFP rankings are out and they are an advertisement for immediately terminating the entire system. More on that later.

First, based on the prior five CFP rankings and the results on Saturday, Indiana (13-0), by virtue of its 14-10 win over Ohio State, was the No. 1 overall seed for the first time in its history, followed by No. 2 Ohio State (12-1), No. 3 Georgia (12-1) and Texas Tech (12-1) – all of whom received first-round byes. Oregon (11-1) was at No. 5, followed by No. 6 Mississippi (11-1) No. 7 Texas A&M (11-1) and No. 8 Oklahoma (11-1). Then the fireworks started.

With an average 8-5 Duke team defeating No. 14 Virginia for the ACC championship, it meant that Duke would not qualify as a top five conference champion and the league was in

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