Two teams remain alive in the College Football Playoff Semifinal: No. 6 Penn State (vs. No. 7 Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl) and No. 8 Ohio State (vs. No. 5 Texas in the Cotton Bowl). Each gives the Big Ten a final hope for year-end bragging rights over the SEC and other top conferences.

The first round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is over, and boy, howdy, were those games underwhelming. They were so bad -- HOW BAD WERE THEY? -- they were so bad that it led to every talking head in the college football universe complaining and arguing about the format with some even saying wins aren't that important.

FOX Sports' RJ Young offers up five takeaways from the quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff and explains why Ohio State is the most dominant team in the field.