Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: expanding the College Football Playoff worked. The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect,

Plus, more questions on whether the CFP format was a success, next year's rising teams and college football's longest season ever.

It started with some blowouts, ended with some nailbiters and gave fans plenty to look forward to in future editions.