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Teddy Greenstein: Put aside your agendas … the College Football Playoff committee made the right call

Welcome to Spin Cycle Sunday. It's the day we craft our College Football Playoff arguments to fit our personal agendas and preconceived notions.

Are you an "SEC 4ever" guy? Then you spent Saturday night kneeling at the throne of ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit, who insisted Georgia should make the playoff because of the "eyeball test."

My rebuttal: OK, but what about the Bulldogs' two losses? Should we pretend the SEC title game, in which Georgia couldn't quite beat Alabama

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