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It has been how long, Michigan? Good to see you, Georgia. This way to orientation, Cincinnati.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The College Football Playoff selection committee announced on Sunday that those four teams would vie for this season’s national championship. They represent three conferences, 31 claimed national titles and plenty of hopes, hypes and expletives.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Left out without meaningful dispute: Clemson, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oklahoma, which are among the bluest of the sport’s blue bloods, but which will be elsewhere on Jan. 10 when the championship game is contested in Indianapolis.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The selection committee’s choices for the four-team tournament were widely expected after conference championship games on Friday and Saturday. 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