A couple of times, it's stayed almost the same. In 1999, Florida State and Virginia Tech started 1-3. Ditto USC and Oklahoma in 2004. They're the only 2 years that the team that started No. 1 wound up winning the title. Alabama and Texas were 2-3 in 2009. Yet the thing to remember here: It's not about finishing first. It's about making sure you're at least No. 2. That's all that matters, at least until they stretch this thing out to a four-team playoff in 2014. To me, the most insightful historical info is that in all but 2 years, at least one of the top two teams in the initial standings has made it to the title game. The exceptions were 1998, when it wound up being No. 3 Tennessee and No....
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