Why wait a few years before assembling an expanded College Football Playoff bracket when we can do it now?! Let’s celebrate college leaders finally agreeing on something that is good for the entire sport, coast to coast.
Using the current college football standings to create an imaginary 12-team playoff bracket based on the model adopted earlier this month by CFP executives, this 12-team model features (1) automatic qualifiers to the six highest-ranked conference champions and (2) six at-large selections to the next six highest-ranked teams. The four highest-ranked conference champions receive byes to the second round (independents are not eligible to receive a bye). We mostly used the polls for seeding, but put more of an emphasis on a team’s competition up to this point.
If a team has played a bunch of cupcakes (Michigan!), it will be reflected in its seeding.
