This has been one of the most interesting college football seasons in the weirdest way.

It’s seen a little bit of everything from courtroom battles, a $77 million mid-season buyout and now Bobby Petrino is going back to Arkansas? Absurd.

On the field, there have been a few classics. The Iron Bowl, of course, added to its history Saturday with Alabama’s improbable fourth-down prayer. There was Miami’s brain fart of a loss to Georgia Tech.

Oregon’s last-second missed field goal kept Washington perfect. Texas-Oklahoma. LSU-Ole Miss. Duke-Clemson. Duke-Notre Dame. We could go on.

Remember Colorado?

There’s been a little bit of everything.

Almost.

What’s missing is what makes this such an anomaly — something that’s making this interesting in a sorta boring way.

There’s been very little drama at the top of the heap as the College Football Playoff rankings stood almost frozen in time for nearly a month. Only Saturday’s Ohio State-Michigan game shook up the top eight teams in Tuesday’s penultimate ranking but that game was an inevitable collision all fall. It wasn’t enough to push the Wolverines past No. 1 Georgia while Ohio State slipped four spots to sixth.

Just no upsets.

And if you’re a team outside the top table, no help.

The top four teams entering conference championship weekend are undefeated — certainly a rarity.

Those four teams have combined to play 13 games decided by one score or less. They clearly survived them all.

Two of them were in overtime.

No. 3 Washington claims six of those 13 close calls after closing the regular season with wins at Oregon State (22-20) and over Washington State (24-21).

Fourth-ranked Florida State had an overtime escape at Clemson and a 31-29 near disaster at a Boston College team that finished 6-6.

So practically everyone held firm atop the CFP rankings in what’s become pointless Tuesday night TV.

The traditional attrition has made at least manufactured drama for the ESPN broadcast. There’s just been none.

Any other year, one-loss teams like Texas and Alabama would be clear top-four teams given either the eye test, marquee wins or both.

And practically every other year, you haven’t seen a Pac-12 team anywhere but the kids table fighting for a spot in the Holiday Bowl or something. Now you have Washington and Oregon with legit teams entering Friday’s conference finale.

If the Playoff cartel wanted a better example of why they’re bumping this from four to 12 next year, they couldn’t have blended a better concoction.

There are doomsday scenarios where chaos on Friday and Saturday creates frankly uncomfortable decisions for the selection jury.

An Alabama win over Georgia. Louisville over Florida State. Michigan boycotting the Big Ten title game. Oregon over Washington.

One of those is bound to happen, right?

Any other year, no doubt.

In the Year of the Chalk, it would only make sense if Georgia, Michigan and Florida State remained perfect and Texas took care of Oklahoma State to set the final four-team field.

Oh, there will be drama.

Someone will be the tease.

But they won’t fool me again. Not this time.

Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.

1. Georgia

• Auburn 27-20
• Ga. Tech 31-23

2. Michigan

• Maryland, 31-24
• Ohio State 30-24

3. Washington

• Arizona, 31-24
• Oregon, 36-33
• Arizona State 15-7
• Utah, 35-28
• Oregon St. 22-20
• Washington St. 24-21

4. Florida State

• Boston College, 31-29
• Clemson, 31-24, OT
• Miami 27-20

5. Oregon

• Texas Tech, 38-30

6. Ohio State

• Notre Dame, 17-14
• Penn St., 20-12

7. Texas

• Houston, 31-24
• Kansas State, 33-30, OT
• TCU, 29-26

8. Alabama

• Texas A&M, 26-20
• Arkansas, 24-21
• Auburn, 27-24