Nobody said it was going to be perfect. The first year of this new-fangled 12-team College Football Playoff was bound to have some growing pains. But two rounds into the revamped postseason, it’s impossible to ignore just how poorly conceived and sloppily assembled this whole enterprise was.

If Wednesday night was any indication, the College Football Playoff might already be decided, and the Ohio State Buckeyes are going to have everyone else playing for second this season. Ryan Day's team came out and looked every bit the national championship favorites against the number one-ranked team in all of college football,

The rematch of college football's game of the regular season failed to live up to the hype as No. 8 seed Ohio State took out its pent-up frustrations on top seed Oregon in a 41-21 victory in the Rose Bowl quarterfinal of the College Football Playoff.