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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 1870586" data-attributes="member: 360">Since this site is at least nominally about a fantasy game, I'd like to take a minor detour into an alternate reality in which division I-A college football is like every other college team sport. Which is to say that there are playoffs, and we spend the last few weeks before the end of the season speculating on who's in, who's out, how seedings will play out, and who will win the whole thing. If the sports fans here think this is interesting enough, I'll post an updated version after this week's games, and next week's, and then let ENWorlders hypothetically run the NCAA Football Tournament...* * * *The rules for my mock playoffs are pretty simple. The 11 conference champions, and five at-large teams qualify. For simplicity, I've chosen the at-large teams from the top 5 teams in the BCS rankings that aren't projected to win their conference (or didn't; six conference champions have already been decided at this point), then sorted them into an East and West region.Our hypothetical first round games are played at campus sites (the higher seed is the home team). Later rounds are played at bowl game sites. I've added the Holiday, Houston, and Capital One bowls into the mix for geographic convenience, and of course the initial championship game is played at the Rose Bowl.* * * *The participants:Confrence Champions (*projected)USC (Pac 10, BCS #1)Oklahoma (Big 12, BCS #2)* [1]Auburn (SEC, BCS #3)* [2]Utah (MWC, BCS #6)Boise St (WAC, BCS #7)Miami (ACC, BCS #9)* [3]Louisville (CUSA, BCS #10)Michigan (Big 10, BCS #12)Boston College (Big East, BCS #21) [4]Northern Illinois (MAC, unranked) [5]Noth Texas (Sun Belt, unranked)[1] Iowa State or Colarado could win the Big 12 Championship game v. Oklahoma[2] Tennessee could win the SEC Championship game v. Auburn[3] If Miami beats Virginia Tech in two weeks, they win the ACC. If Virginia Tech beats Virginia AND Miami, they win the ACC. If Virginia beats Virginia Tech AND Virginia Tech beats Miami, then there's a four-way tie among Virginia, Miami, Virginia Tech, and Florida State; the team with the highest BCS ranking (probably Virginia) wins the ACC in that case.[4] If BC beats Syracuse, they win the Big East. If Syracuse wins AND West Virginia beats Pitt, then West Virginia wins the Big East. If Syracuse beats BC AND Pitt beats West Virginia, then there's a four-way tie among BC, Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virginia; the highest-ranked team (probably West Virginia) represents the Big East in that case.[5] Either Toledo or Northern Illinois will play Miami (Ohio) in the MAC championship game. Bowling Green is the highest-ranked MAC team in the BCS, but can't win the MAC, as they lost to Northern Illinois and so can't win their division in the case of a tie, and can't do better than tie by beating Toledo this week. Toledo beat Northern Illinois, and so would win a tiebreaker if they beat Bowling Green.At large teamsCal (BCS #4)Texas (BCS #5)Georgia (BCS #8)Iowa (BCS #11)LSU (BCS #13)Next 5Virginia Tech (BCS #14)Tennessee (BCS #15)Arizona State (BCS #16)Virginia (BCS #17)Florida State (BCS #18)Teams the BCS computers think are seriously underrated: Arizona State, Texas A&MTeams the BCS computers think are seriously overrated: Georgia, Louisville* * * *"Playoff" SeedingEast1 Oklahoma (Big 12, BCS #2)2 Auburn (SEC, BCS #3)3 Texas (at large, BCS #5)4 Georgia (at large, BCS #8)5 Miami (ACC, BCS #9)       6 Louisville (CUSA, BCS #10)7 Boston College (Big East, BCS #21) 8 Northern Illinois (MAC, unranked)  West1 USC (Pac 10 champ)2 Cal (at large #1)3 Utah (MWC, BCS #6)    4 Boise St (WAC, BCS #7)5 Iowa (at large, BCS #11)6 Michigan (Big 10, BCS #12)7 LSU (at large, BCS #13)   8 Noth Texas (Sun Belt, unranked)Round 1 games (Dec 11, at campus sites)EastGame A - #8 Northern Illinois at #1 OklahomaGame B - #5 Miami at #4 GeorgiaGame C - #7 Boston College at #2 AuburnGame D - #6 Louisville at #3 TexasWestGame A - #8 North Texas at #1 USCGame B - #5 Iowa at #4 Boise St         Game C - #7 LSU at #2 CalGame D - #6 Michigan at #3 Utah</blockquote>

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