Let’s start with one thing I’m absolutely not overreacting to: the Playoff field.

The committee got it right. Absolutely right.

Now, about how we got to Sunday’s big reveal … here are 10 things I’m absolutely overreacting to from the past week.

10. The Big Ten West is still the Big Ten Tease

I’ve seen this movie a time or two. I tried to warn my Midwest friends. They insisted this year was different. They always do.

It’s hard to analyze a team and wave a pom-pom at the same time. I don’t blame them. But I told them. Over and over again, I told them.

That offense stinks.

The committee obviously agreed. They waited until there was no other alternative to finally put Wisconsin at No. 4 last week. They knew. They knew that soft schedule and couple of close calls combined to build a house of balsa wood that would blow down the first time somebody coughed.

Ohio State coughed — and nearly coughed it up.

9. Nick Saban is an assassin

It’s one thing to listen to me say over and over how weak the B1G West is.

It’s quite another when the King says it.

Saban took a sword to the Big Ten, cutting its Playoff chances to shreds.

8. Sorry, Buckeyes, you never had a chance

I’m conflicted though.

For three years, my pet expression, one I wanted to put on a T-shirt was: “Every game matters. Except Ohio State losses. Those never count.”

Maybe I’ll save the slogan and just add a simple asterisk after “losses*”

And then in a small font on the back, explain the * — Unless it’s a 31-point loss to Iowa.

Bottom line: The Big Ten hasn’t scored a point in the past two Playoffs, and that wasn’t going to change this year even if it somehow defied logic and got in.

7. Roquan Smith is the best defensive player in America

No, I haven’t seen every player on every team.

But I’ve seen enough to know there isn’t anybody better in the Power 5. By default, that’s good enough for me.

Sideline to sideline, your backfield to his secondary, that man is a problem.

Two years ago, Georgia had a junior linebacker leave early; Leonard Floyd was a somewhat surprising No. 9 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft.

There will be no surprise if Smith leaves early or lands in the top 10.

6. NCAA penalties against Ole Miss

I’m not sure the NCAA “hammered” Ole Miss. It could have been worse. The scholarship reduction will hurt, but the extra bowl ban for for 2018 is really what irked the Rebels to the point they’ll appeal.

They should. I’ve long believed bowl bans are like telling your 16-year-old he can’t get his license for another two years because your 24-year-old wrecked the car eight years ago.

Somebody must be punished, but it shouldn’t be the current players.

Money corrupts. The money is so insane now, there has never been more incentive to cheat in college football. Don’t blame the kids. Blame the coaches.

Fire them, with cause, without settlement. Give them very real reasons to hire quality assistants and end this behind-the-scenes junk. And if something goes on, they’re gone.

Right now, it just feels like Major League Baseball: The money and stakes are so outrageous, guys will do almost anything to get their hands on it.

5. Change the transfer rule … now

Jimbo Fisher just transferred from Florida State to Texas A&M.

Scott Frost transferred back home to Nebraska.

Heck, Dan Mullen transferred from one SEC school to another and is bringing half of his staff with him.

Every coach who transfers cashes in … and leaves behind a trail of disappointment.

I’ll have to check the 12,847-page NCAA handbook, but I’m fairly certain that every coach who transfers also is allowed to coach the next season.

It has never made sense that players don’t have the same rights.

While mad at the NCAA, Ole Miss still made a point of warning rivals to keep their paws off their players. Rising seniors are free to transfer and play immediately in 2018.

That star-laden rising junior class, headlined by Shea Patterson, A.J. Brown and Greg Little, would have to sit out next year if they transfer. Unless they can somehow gain a waiver from the NCAA.

Utterly one-sided. Utterly ridiculous. Utterly unfair.

4. If I’m Georgia, I’m a little miffed …

In my rankings, Oklahoma was No. 1 and Clemson No. 2.

The committee reversed them. Not a huge deal — unless you’re SEC champion Georgia.

Oklahoma has the most unstoppable offense in the Playoff and is led by the best quarterback in the Playoff. That’s a bad combo.

As much as we talk about defense, offense wins the Playoff. In eight of the nine Playoff games, the winning team has scored 30 or more points. The champion has scored 35 or more in all three title games.

If you can’t keep up, you have no chance.

Bottom line: I’d rather deal with Clemson than Oklahoma in the semifinal.

3. Joey Galloway has got to go

We get it. You went to Ohio State. I didn’t need a film study session to know you were going to run your favorite play Sunday.

I listened and listened and listened and kept waiting for something he said to make sense Sunday. I’m fine with differing opinions. One of our writers had a piece Saturday night saying Alabama didn’t deserve to make the Playoff. I’m not here to legislate opinion, even off-base ones, but at least try to have a logical reason.

Ohio State’s slim-to-none Playoff case ended when it didn’t pound Wisconsin by 30.

But that didn’t stop the noise Sunday morning.

ESPN has a serious OSU problem and it clouds whatever bit of remaining credibility you think the network has. I’ve stopped watching GameDay as a result. I didn’t watch any of the previous Playoff rankings shows either. I just can’t take it anymore.

Enough, OK?

2. Tennessee’s going to be just fine

The Vols survived the rockiest week in program history by asking the man who built it to come back and save it.

Phillip Fulmer will make the right hire. It’s going to be a name you know. And it’s going to make Tennessee a threat again in the East.

Championship programs have the ability to bounce back. The Vols will.

1. All together now, “We need an 8-team Playoff”

The most exciting, drama-filled part of the season should not be the selection show.

It should be the moments before and after.

The Pac-12, Big Ten and American Athletic Conference played Championship Games that didn’t matter. That’s criminal.

Expand to 8, give the five Power 5 conference champions an automatic bid. Give the best Group of 5 team an automatic bid. And then let the committee pick two more teams and arrange the games.

Give everybody a chance to dream the dream. Even Joey Galloway and Ohio State.