After months of meeting to discuss things to discuss at future meetings, the people in charge of the College Football Playoff actually made a decision on Thursday, and it was one we've assumed they'd make for a while. After last year's 12-team CFP gave byes to the four most highly ranked conference champions, this year's will not.

Until now, the SEC was pushing the idea of giving itself four automatic qualifiers in any future College Football Playoff, but the sport’s most dominant confere