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James Lang-USA TODAY Sports
The 12-team playoff is coming one year too late, but here's what it would look like, using the final college football playoff rankings that came out on Sunday.

No. 12. Oklahoma (10-2) and No. 13. LSU (9-3) would be the first two teams left out of the playoff.
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Format rules:
*6 auto bids to highest ranked conference champs
*6 at-large bids to next highest ranked teams
*top 4 champs get byes
*5-8 seeds host on-campus 1st round games

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AtlantaLSUfan29 months
FSU is 4 if they don’t have to bump them to get Bama in.
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Michael T. Tiger29 months
And if this was 2024...Only FSU and Liberty would not be an SEC or BIG10 team.
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Locoguan029 months
So with the P5 becoming the P4, will you have two G6 teams getting autobids?
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NorCali29 months
That’s the million dollar question. Needs to be revised given the conference re-alignment that happened after the format was developed
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Yeti_Chaser29 months
By the committee's "logic" FSU should be the 9 seed
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Tiger202229 months
So basically teams can lose 2 games instead of 1. That’s pretty fair imo.
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Ping Pong29 months
a 3 loss team will make the playoff every few years. This year is unusual with a high number of undefeated and 1 loss teams.
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FLTech29 months
it should be the fricking top 12 teams make the playoffs no matter what conference they are from. Enough of this stupid fricking format bullshite (6 must be from here, 6 must be from there) frick all that stupid TV bullshite
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Lithium29 months
Should be conference champions . So that big time out of conference games continue. Why should LSU play FSU or southern cal if it cost them a chance at the natty. Would be better off playing McNeese
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JustinT3729 months
LSU would beat the breaks out of Penn State.
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Datbayoubengal29 months
All these undefeated and 1 loss teams won't happen again for a while. This is extremely rare and we also rarely saw an upset this season, again, extremely rare. 9-3 teams will make it just about every year.
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Westbank11129 months
It’s gonna be Bama v Texas rematch with Bama winning it all (unfortunately) & Saban riding off into the Miami Sunset. Texas basically gets a bye week, PAC-12 is soft!
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Westbank11129 months
Liberty & Missouri, what a joke! LSU dominated Missouri on the road!
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Lithium29 months
Finals would be UGA beating Bama
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Lithium29 months
Ole Miss at Ohio St would be great
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jacquespene829 months
“Best teams”
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dstone1229 months
1-4 seeds need the home game…..not the first rounders.

That’s so dumb.

Go undefeated all year just to have to earn a bowl location.
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CanebreakCajun29 months
Bro, their reward for being in tue top 4 is a bye week.
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LsuNav29 months
LSU and Oklahoma make better tv. They can always use the competitiveness argument now that a precedent has been set.
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tiger10929 months
16 teams. I can't think of any other sport who puts such a small percentage of their teams in a playoff
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Oaklawn29 months
Isn't the PAC 12 going away? If so, does that mean we get SEC, BIG 10, BIG 12 and ACC champs then two other conference champions like Liberty and SMU in final 12? If so, we'll have two garbage games to look forward to.
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LSUfan444429 months
How can anyone with a functioning brain think the committee would have left FSU at 5 in a 12 team format? I just can't comprehend the stupidity of most of the expansion supporters.
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TNoon29 months
55 sos
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fr33manator29 months
How the crap would liberty be in over LSU. Louisville lost and we were 13

BS that liberty gets in. They will he knocked out first round
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Twincam29 months
They went undefeated and LSU lost 3. It’s pretty easy.
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GeauxtigersMs3629 months
Top non power 5 school. Read the rules of the format
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burreauxxx29 months
Dumb that they’re forcing teams like Liberty into this. Literally bid stealers for a power 5 school that could actually win it.
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fr33manator29 months
Yeah, what happens when the conference champions of the garbage leagues are like 8-4?
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