http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls07/bracket
This website enables you to simulate a 16-team college football playoff for the 2007 season. If you replace the "07" in the URL with 08, 09, 10, or 11, you get a different bracket for those four seasons.
This enables us to envision potential national championship showdowns from 2007-11 under a playoff system.
I used the "BCS Standings" option to simulate five years of this potential playoff. Here are the national championship game results along with some notes.
2007: Ohio State 25, USC 20... USC opens with win over Hawaii and knocks out OTL national titleholder LSU... Buckeyes beat Tennessee, West Virginia and Georgia to reach championship... Missouri is upset by Arizona State in the first round.
2008: USC 41, Florida 34... USC takes relatively easy path to title game, beating Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and Boise State... Florida defeats Georgia, Texas Tech, and Texas... Utah loses to TCU in first round... Oklahoma upset by Boise State in quarterfinals.
2009: Texas 24, Alabama 20... Reverse result as in real life... Texas beats Miami, Iowa, and BYU to reach title game while Alabama beats West Virginia, Ohio State, and TCU... Cincinnati (undefeated in OTL) upset by BYU in first round.
2010: LSU 27, Arkansas 26... LSU pulls three straight upset wins over Ohio State, TCU, and Oregon - teams that reached the Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, and National Championship in OTL... Arkansas also upset Michigan State, OTL national champ Auburn, and Stanford in succession.
2011: LSU 31, Oklahoma State 24... Tigers repeat... LSU opens with back-to-back wins over conference foes (Georgia, South Carolina), follows up by KOing Stanford 31-23... Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, and Wisconsin to reach title game... Alabama upset by Wisconsin in quarterfinal, 29-24.
This website enables you to simulate a 16-team college football playoff for the 2007 season. If you replace the "07" in the URL with 08, 09, 10, or 11, you get a different bracket for those four seasons.
This enables us to envision potential national championship showdowns from 2007-11 under a playoff system.
I used the "BCS Standings" option to simulate five years of this potential playoff. Here are the national championship game results along with some notes.
2007: Ohio State 25, USC 20... USC opens with win over Hawaii and knocks out OTL national titleholder LSU... Buckeyes beat Tennessee, West Virginia and Georgia to reach championship... Missouri is upset by Arizona State in the first round.
2008: USC 41, Florida 34... USC takes relatively easy path to title game, beating Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and Boise State... Florida defeats Georgia, Texas Tech, and Texas... Utah loses to TCU in first round... Oklahoma upset by Boise State in quarterfinals.
2009: Texas 24, Alabama 20... Reverse result as in real life... Texas beats Miami, Iowa, and BYU to reach title game while Alabama beats West Virginia, Ohio State, and TCU... Cincinnati (undefeated in OTL) upset by BYU in first round.
2010: LSU 27, Arkansas 26... LSU pulls three straight upset wins over Ohio State, TCU, and Oregon - teams that reached the Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, and National Championship in OTL... Arkansas also upset Michigan State, OTL national champ Auburn, and Stanford in succession.
2011: LSU 31, Oklahoma State 24... Tigers repeat... LSU opens with back-to-back wins over conference foes (Georgia, South Carolina), follows up by KOing Stanford 31-23... Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, and Wisconsin to reach title game... Alabama upset by Wisconsin in quarterfinal, 29-24.