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“Notre Dame played in 16 games last season, making it all the way to the championship game while not playing in a conference championship game. The eventual national champion, Ohio State, had the same path. Others who lost their conference championships but made the CFP, like Penn State, faced a potential 17-game season.
Previously, the longest possible season for a team was 15 games in the four-team CFP era. That, itself, was already a much longer season than the BCS era and other previous instances of the college football postseason.”