An article explores how a playoff would have determined college football champions since 1966 using simulations. It discusses the idea of an eight-team playoff and the potential format for the playoffs.
Released an article that examined how a playoff would have decided every college football title since 1966. Using his SP+ formula, Connelly created a College Football Multiverse and simulated eight-, 12- and 16-team playoffs for the past six decades of the sport. His simulations produced undisputed champions for each of those years. Since multiverses are all the rage these days, let's hop over into an alternate universe where, 60 years ago, college football magically did something progressive.
Let's pretend for a moment Duffy Daugherty's lobbying for an eight-team playoff, with six conference champions and the top two independents (or, theoretically, champions of other conferences), actually worked. Daugherty's plan was to leave the bowls alone and finish the entire playoff over three weeks in December. Let's have fun with that idea: Let's say the quarterfinals and semifinals are on campus, and, to placate the Rose Bowl — and get it to agree to this whole thing — the finals are always in Pasadena
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