The reveal of the College Football Playoff is always a reminder of how much more entertaining the sport’s first few weeks would be if the field expanded and teams wouldn’t be so scared to take an early loss. Washington, for instance, made the playoff with a nonconference schedule of Rutgers, Idaho and Portland State. Ugh.

In the last week in college basketball, North Carolina traveled to Indiana and UCLA went to Kentucky. Both games were spectacles and had a March feel, and they were played because the losses will not be damning to the postseason future of either loser.

It also gives us a much clearer view of the college basketball landscape in the first month, much more so than blue bloods beating up on small s...

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