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With last night’s committee rankings release, let’s compare how the committee would seed a 12-team playoff vs. how the BCS would seed one:

(And yes, know that Miami has a tough road to that 11-seed in both brackets — choosing conference champion by highest rank here).
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A fascinating side-by-side of this week's playoff committee rankings and our latest simulated BCS:
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
FIXED: This week's latest simulated BCS rankings are here:
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This week's simulated BCS rankings are here:
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For ease of comparison: Tonight’s latest committee rankings against our most up-to-date simulated BCS:
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Let's take a look at this week's simulated BCS rankings:
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Based on our latest side-by-side, here's how the two systems would fill out a 12-team playoff bracket:
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For easy comparison, let's take a look at last night's committee rankings side-by-side with our simulated BCS:
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Here's a look at our latest simulated BCS rankings:
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Based on our first side-by-side of the season, here's another comparison — potential 12-team playoff brackets via the simulated #BCS and the playoff committee
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
For the first time this season, let's take a look at a side-by-side of our simulated BCS and the committee rankings:
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
With the first committee rankings of the year set to be released Tuesday night, here's how the BCS might've viewed this college football season so far:
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As we get closer to the first @CFBPlayoff committee rankings, let's take a look at this week's simulated #BCS:
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Let's take a look at our latest set of simulated BCS rankings:
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hello again! We're back! For the first time this season, let’s take a look at what the “BCS” would have had to say about this fascinating college football season so far:
October 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Here's the season's end side-by-side comparison of the simulated #BCS and the committee's final top 25 rankings:
December 8, 2024 at 7:14 PM
In the first 12-team edition of the college football playoff, the simulated #BCS and the committee include 11 of the same teams, disagreeing only on Alabama vs. SMU. Here's your side-by-side brackets under both:
December 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM
The simulated #BCS is out and it would seed the 12-team playoff in its own way. In nine of the 10 years prior, the committee included the exact same teams in its four-team playoff as the #BCS would've. We'll see soon how 2024 will compare:
December 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Here it is, what we’ve been waiting for — the season-ending simulated #BCS rankings. How will the committee rankings compare?
December 8, 2024 at 4:59 PM
And, with just one week of action remaining, here’s how the simulated #BCS and the @CFBPlayoff
committee would end up filling out their respective 12-team brackets:
December 4, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Our penultimate side-by-side comparison of this week’s simulated #BCS and the just-released
@CFBPlayoff rankings:
December 4, 2024 at 12:18 AM
As many of you have correctly pointed out, yesterday's simulated #BCS rankings would give us a fascinating potential 12-team playoff. We’ll see how the College Football Playoff committee’s version of this bracket looks tomorrow:
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 AM
With the regular season complete, let's take a look our second-to-last simulated #BCS rankings of the year, where Notre Dame slides past Penn State to No. 3 and Boise State cracks the top 10:
December 1, 2024 at 11:35 PM
After some misalignments on bracket seeding last week, the simulated #BCS and tonight's
@CFBPlayoff fill out striking similar 12-team playoff brackets (if the season ended today) — reordering three of four road teams in the opening round:
November 27, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Amazingly, we've only got two of these left this season — here's the latest side-by-side of our simulated #BCS and the just-released committee rankings:
November 27, 2024 at 1:51 AM