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The top four seeds in the College Football Playoff deserve home games too. Here's why quarterfinals at bowl games need to go.

P.J. Fleck hasn’t lost a bowl game in five trips with the Gophers, but their past four bowl wins have been decided by an average of fewer than nine points. This season, six of their past eight games were decided by single digits. The Hokies haven’t lost a game by more than 10 points this season.