Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: expanding the College Football Playoff worked. The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect,

And there you have it. The Ohio State Buckeyes have won their second College Football Playoff National Championship, their first since winning the inaugural one

This year, Boise State was the non-power representative for the College Football Playoff. Next year, it will be Tulane, but it will be a very different situation than the Broncos'. Boise State got a bye and was actually ranked inside the top-12. That won't be the case next season.