CLEVELAND, Ohio — Worth noting as you track each team’s chances to make the 2019 college football playoffs: history says undefeated teams are a lock, and major conference champions with just one loss are almost a sure thing. The problem for Ohio State is there is an exception to most every rule. The Buckeyes were the exception a year ago when they became the only outright Power 5 league champion with one loss ever left out of the playoffs. Here’s how the selections break out over the first five seasons of the playoffs: Only schools from the Power 5 conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC), plus independent Notre Dame have made the playoffs. Undefeated teams historically are few by selection Sunday. There have been just six in five years — one each in 2014 (Florida State), 2015 (Clemson) and 2016 (Alabama), plus three in 2018 (Alabama, Clemson…
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