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Originally Posted by Solecismic

Trying to come up with some sort of ranking system based on possible outcomes that follows the committee's rules...

Note that the same team can occupy multiple places. I've ended the ranking when there are four different teams in, guaranteed.

1. Undefeated SEC Champion (Georgia)
2. Undefeated Big Ten Champion (Ohio State or Michigan)
3. Undefeated Big Twelve Champion (TCU)
4. 1-Loss SEC Champion or Runner-Up (Georgia)
5. 1-Loss Pac Twelve Champion (USC)

(since 1 and 4 are the same team, the above results are guaranteed playoff spots)

6. 1-Loss Big Ten Runner-Up (Ohio State or Michigan)
7. 1-Loss ACC Champion (Clemson)
8. 2-Loss SEC Champion (LSU)
9. 1-Loss Big Twelve Champion or Runner-Up (TCU)
10. 1-Loss Big Ten Lucky Loser (Ohio State or Michigan)

(this almost certainly fills all four spots, but since nine different teams can occupy 9-12 and my system gives them fairly similar scores, significantly below the top eight, I'm including all 12)

11. 2-Loss Pac Twelve Champion (USC, Oregon, Utah or Washington)
12. 2-Loss SEC Lucky Loser (Tennessee, then Alabama)


For the conference championships (I hope I've done this correctly):

The ACC is Clemson versus North Carolina.
The SEC is Georgia versus LSU.
The Big Twelve is TCU versus Kansas State (3 boxes of 4) or Texas (1 box).
The Big Ten is the Ohio State/Michigan winner versus Iowa (5 boxes of 8), Purdue (2 boxes) or Illinois (1 box).
The Pac Twelve is USC versus Oregon (12 boxes of 16), Washington (3 boxes) or Utah (1 box). Oregon is considered the top seed with a win next week.

Just make a new game