Kevin White, Mark Glowinski and Josh Lambert, come on down.

Big week for White and Lambert, who are both up for major awards Thursday at the college football awards show.

As for the bowl game and the playoff, have at it. I traveled last night and this morning and have been grinding since to get caught up again. I’ve just started getting into the bowl stuff, and I’m smoldering about the playoff. We’ll touch on it all, I’m sure, but I just haven’t done much with either.

Initial impressions: Fun bowl game, and there are parallels between 2012 WVU and 2014 TAMU. I have a lot of problems with the playoff. A lot. (Thought: Florida State, I felt, was rewarded for being the unbeaten defending national champion, which is beyond understandable, if not obtuse for a ranking system in place to find the best teams this season and not the past few seasons. TCU, though, was punished because of last season, when it was 4-8 and lined itself up a 2014 schedule that closed with Iowa State as opposed to a made-for-TV game like Baylor or Oklahoma. What if TCU played Kansas State Saturday and won by the same margin Baylor did? Would that have done it? As it was, the Horned Frogs were curiously penalized three places for beating the hell out of the Cyclones, which is what they were supposed to do.) I’ll let them go soon, but I continue to go back to how stupid it was to have the weekly rankings show.

Yesterday would have been unsullied if it was the first reveal. It’s a shame to all involved that it wasn’t everything it could have been and is instead undone by its own designs that preceded the last reveal.

And now we watch the carnage and what changes it creates.