Will a Pac-12 team make the College Football Playoff? #DearAndy

Is Texas A&M a “fake” SEC school because it doesn’t have a Waffle House? Will a Pac-12 team make the College Football Playoff this season? Andy Staples answers these questions and more.

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• Is Texas A&M a “fake” SEC school because it doesn’t have a Waffle House? The Aggies joined the conference in 2012.

• Will a Pac-12 team make the College Football Playoff this season? None of the conference’s teams were included in the top 10 of our post-spring Power Rankings.

• Will Mark Richt turn things around at Miami? The Hurricanes hired Richt in December after he spent the previous 15 seasons as Georgia’s head coach.

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