The first round of the inaugural 12 Team College Football Playoff in the books. While the build-up and atmospheres were amazing, the games themselves were underwhelming outside of maybe the Clemson-Texas game. While changes to the format of the College Football Playoff are likely coming in the next year or two, many fans are complaining about the matchups and which teams got into the Playoff.

Would South Carolina, Alabama, and Miami have given us more intriguing games and better matchups? Possibly, but when South Carolina and Alabama have three conference losses and Miami loses to a 5-loss Georgia Tech and a blow a huge lead to Syracuse to clinch a spot in the ACC Championship, those teams have nobody to blame but themselves given the parameters the selection process of the College Football Playoff. Personally, I think the results would not have been much different if any of those teams’ switched spots with Indiana, Clemson, or SMU.

In any given college football season, you have anywhere between four to six teams that can win a College Football National Championship. It will always be highly unlikely that one of the last teams in has any realistic chance to win the National Championship. This year, outside of perhaps Arizona State and Boise, we have six teams that have a chance.

With all of that said, why the hell are people complaining who got in? While this weekend’s results weren’t the most compelling, most of the semifinal games in the four-team playoff were blowouts as well. What the 12-team playoff brought to us was meaningful football to the otherwise dead area between conference championship weekend and New Year’s Eve (No offense to the Gasparilla Bowl, nobody makes plans around mid or worse bowl games).

Who doesn’t want another weekend of meaningful college football?