Teams that earned first-round byes in last year's College Football Playoff famously went 0-4 in the quarterfinals, spawning a theory that rust outweighs rest in the 12-team playoff era. That theory will be tested -- and likely debunked -- this week for a couple of reasons. For one, a flawed seeding formula that granted automatic byes to the four highest-ranked conference champions last season, regardless of overall ranking, has been corrected. This time,...
