A four-team playoff on New Year’s Eve is such poor execution of a good idea that it could only be done by one sport. College football never did succeed at redefining a holiday that exceedingly few people have ever wanted to spend in front of a television, but at least it’s trying again this year.

The four-team format will only be around for one more season after this one and let’s face it, the list of classic semifinal games since it started in 2014 is exceedingly short. But the good news? The spreads for both Michigan-TCU (U-M -7.5) and Ohio State-Georgia (UGA -6.5) have fallen under one score. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll get the football-watching day we deserve for skipping New Year’s parties in favor of the Peach Bowl.

If you haven’t been spending Saturdays all year on the couch, though, you’ll need a primer before that. Here are the players to watch in the College Football Playoff.

Max Duggan, QB, TCU