Indiana (13-0) will enter the playoff at No. 1 and two of the folloiwng five teams will be crying up a storm: Alabama, Notre Dame, Miami, Duke and James Madison. The first three will likely only get two spots in the 12-team bracket,

Conference championship weekend's results produced the most complex scenario for the College Football Playoff committee to sort through given their tangled web of rankings this season.

The administrators who run the Playoff introduced a significant tweak to the seeding process this year, the second season with a 12-team bracket after a decade of a four-team field.