So they ran a mock scenario for the upcoming playoff system and here is what ...

.... here is what happened.

Looks suspect to me. From where did they pull the teams for the mock sample? Or is this a hint as to how they are thinking?

It's a long article:

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College football's forthcoming Playoff might be preferable to its predecessor on paper, but in practice could remind why we can't have nice things.

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College Football Playoff executive director (and former BCS head) Bill Hancock met with gathered journalists Saturday morning at the annual Association for Women in Sports Media convention. Hancock appeared to provide a glimpse into the relative transparency of the new Playoff selection process.


We already had a pretty good idea of what the selection process will look like, but only from a high level. The Playoff committee members will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays to produce weekly rankings, beginning October 28, which will decide both the two Playoff games and the four other New Year's bowls.


The selection committee voting guidelines show the committee's general emphasis. How rigidly they're enforced and how much emphasis is placed on things like conference championships over record alone remains very open to debate. An entire controversy arose a month back when committee chair and Arkansas AD Jeff Long said it's not the "most deserving" teams... it's the "best."


Saturday, Hancock appeared to show a list of Playoff's selection committee's 2015 mock ...

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Ignoring some of the bolder projections (put down the pitchforks, #FSUTwitter), which would appear to be geared towards experimenting with some of the recusal guidelines, here's an educated guess on why the schools in the right hand column are grouped the way they are.

No. 1 seed Stanford, Pac-12 champions
No. 2 seed Michigan, Big Ten champions
No. 3 seed Duke, ACC champions
No. 4 seed Wisconsin, Big Ten runners-up
Florida, SEC champions
Clemson, ACC runners-up
Arizona State, Pac-12 runners-up
Oklahoma, Big 12 champions
Baylor, Big 12 No. 2
Oklahoma State, Big 12 No. 3
BYU, independent
Michigan State, Big Ten No. 3
San Diego State, best Group of Five
Georgia, SEC No. 2
Central Florida, Group of 5 No. 2

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