Forget June in January. This is March in December. The new College Football Playoff bracket has brought a touch of March Madness to an already glorious season (I mean Christmas, not football), and I’m ready to jump on the 12-team-bracket bandwagon. As there will be every year, sure there’s a team or two at 13 or 14 that thinks it should be in, but such is life. And let me place one vote in favor of the delicious intrastate game between Notre Dame and Indiana, proof that the bracketmakers have a little sense of humor in their dealings.

And somebody, please, cue up “One Shining Moment”!