College Football Playoff: ESPN experts pick final four teams of 2014
With the first ever College Football Playoff coming this year, you can be sure that every analyst and expert with access to a keyboard will be weighing in on their picks as to who will be the four inaugural teams to participate.
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The folks over at ESPN.com have made their choices, and as expected, it’s full of the usual suspects.
According to ESPN’s group of prognosticators, Alabama, Auburn, Oregon and Florida State will be the four teams to be selected in the 2014 playoffs, with the Seminoles repeating as National Champions.
These choices will come as no shock to those who follow ESPN, as the are considered to be four of the top programs in the nation, as well as perennial favorites of the Worldwide Leader.
This years semifinal games will be the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, with those games rotating on a yearly basis between the them and the Peach, Cotton, Fiesta and Orange Bowls.
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The National Championship game, just as in the BCS era, will be a separate game not affiliated with one of the bowls, and is scheduled to be played on Jan. 15, 2015 during this years playoff slate.
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