One of the reasons I liked divisions within conferences is that it guaranteed that every team in the conference had played at least one of the two teams in the championship game.
In this era of divisionless conferences and conferences twice as large as a yearly schedule can accommodate, are we still getting that kind of representation?
With less than 12 hours until the selection show starts, here's the last chance for predictions.
After several years of applying future rules to past results, let's flip the script and predict what a four team playoff would look like in 2024.
The latest rankings are out, and take into account everything except the conference championship games.
The conference title games are set, and we can turn our focus on the field of 12.
As usual, Black Friday is turning into a near full day of games, capped off with Georgia beating rival GT in 8 OT. Of course, the only thing at risk for Georgia was their safety net going into the CFP.
Was no one able to follow the script this week and make things easy? However, we are finally at the point where we can play the "what if" game and look at multiple scenarios. I still miss the divisional format when the tiebreakers were easier and settled on the field. Some of the scenarios are going down into the more abstract tiebreakers where I'm largely relying on media outlets and the conferences.
Doing the wrap up from a bit of a distance this week, since my teams on a bye and I had other plans on Saturday. No spots clinched in any of the Power conference championship games this week, but some teams have some shots at clinching next week. However, I think a lot of the races will come down to the final week.
We're coming down to a crazy finish. Some teams are making this wrap-up a little too difficult by not going quietly into that good night.
All of the conferences took care of their multiple-undefeated problems. In fact, the SEC took all of their undefeated teams off the board.
