With blowouts galore in the first round of the College Football Playoffs, the Clemson-Texas game was the closest matchup. And the home team still won by 14 points.

Did the CFP selection committee get the rankings and seedings right? Everyone had their opinion as Friday night and Saturday unfolded.

All Texas coach Steve Sarkisian knows is, “I think college football got this one right.”

No. 5 seed Texas beat No. 12 seed Clemson 38-24 at Royal-Memorial Stadium. It was the most competitive game of the weekend. Notre Dame, Penn State and Ohio State all won their first-round games blowout fashion.

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“As much as we critique some of the things that are happening in our game right now, this idea of a home playoff game with this 12-team format, this was pretty special and one that we were humbled and honored to be part of here at DKR,” Sarkisian said. “I hope everybody enjoyed that because we surely did.”

CFP rankings, seedings and the validity of the 12-team bracket will be a hot topic in the coming weeks as more games are played. The quarterfinal round will introduce four new teams, all conference champions.

If those games are blowouts, which seems unlikely, this whole model might get an overhaul before next season.

The only thing that everyone appears to agree on is that having playoff games on campus is a major success.

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“That's way smarter people than me or maybe they'll put me in a room with some smart people to figure some other stuff out because we've got a lot of things in college football, and this is kind of one that is kind of far down on the barometer that we're dealing with,” Sarkisian said.

“But I don't know. It was a great environment. I think we're going to learn a lot about this College Football Playoff, from seeding and home games and bowl games and recruiting calendars and school calendars. There's a lot. This is the first time out.

“But I can speak to this, and I can speak to the games that I watched on TV,” the coach continued. “It's truly created a great environment here.

“But as a fan of college football, last night when we get done meeting, to watch that environment at Notre Dame or this morning when I'm up watching that environment at Penn State, gosh, it's great for college football.”

Sarkisian is well on record as someone who loves the pageantry of college football. While he’s against the appearance of unlimited eligibility, Sarkisian is for unlimited fun atmospheres.

“I feel like the popularity of college football right now is at an all-time high, and people are intrigued by it,” Sarkisian said. “People are loving watching the competitiveness of the games, the parity that's going on right now in the game.

“Where it goes from here, I don't exactly know. Do we expand it, do we not, what does it look like. But it surely has created a lot of buzz, and I think it's created a lot of buzz all season long because there were more teams involved with an opportunity to go win a championship.

“Where it goes from here, I don't know, but it sure was kind of fun tonight. That was for sure.”