2022 Week 4 wrap-up

West Virginia may have kept the Black Diamond Trophy, but "Country Roads" still ain't about you.

2022 Week 3 wrap up

Not a lot of changes this week due to very few conference games.  Things should really start kicking into gear over the next couple of weeks as everyone should start getting to the conference slate.

2022 Week 2 wrap up

Happy New Year!  It's an interesting time for college football, as we are in the early stages of the Super Conference Realignment of 2022 and Beyond.  Over the last couple of years, different conferences have stated their intentions to change their format and scheduling, as several of them are trying the "two best team" format for their championship games.  The Pac-12 was the first to abolish divisions effective this season, although they will still play the same schedule.  This will be the final year of the divisions in the ACC.  And finally, as the games were getting ready to start on Friday night of week 1, the CFP announced that they were expanded to a 12 team format.

This certainly will make my efforts here more challenging, trying to keep track of who's in the running for what, but we're all here for chaos and madness.

12 team playoff "What If?": The late BCS era

While it's been difficult to apply the structure of the CFP/NY6 to the BCS era, it might be a little easier to determine the potential 12 team playoff lineups of those years.  Since the structure calls for the six highest ranked conference champions without any stipulations, we can just pick conference champs from that era and not worry about how to classify the Big East.

Unlike the CFP era "What If" exercise, we will only be looking at seeding and early matchups, and not assigning the quarterfinal matchups to bowl games.

12 team playoff "What If": CFP era

They finally took the vote and made it official to expand the CFP to 12 teams.  By the end of the 2026 season, we'll be seeing a full tournament of playoff games.  Let's play "what if" and see how the 12 team playoff would have looked since 2014.

2022 Season Look-Ahead

It's here - another college football season! And with a twist this year - I decided to wait until the Sunday of Week 1 to do my annual look-ahead post.