The college football regular season is over. Aside from Army-Navy. Man what is college football going to do when one of those teams is in playoff contention… anyways lets see what proper playoff would look like.

Automatic Bids

At Large Bids TCU Ohio State

This is gonna be fun! First lets get our top 4 conference champs with their byes…

1. Georgia
2. Michigan
3. Clemson
4. Utah

And now, our first round of matchups. All on site at the campus of the higher seed.

5. TCU vs. 12. Toledo
6. Ohio State vs. 11. Fresno State
7. Kansas State vs. 10. UTSA
8. Tulane vs. 9. Troy

Remember we reseed in the second round so Georgia would play the lowest seed winner at Georgia. Michigan would play the second lowest, etc.

Rece Davis going on his podcast and calling talk of Alabama getting in “internet absurdity” is WILD.

Watch your network man. They’re talking about it all week.

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The amount of content I shoved into my Evernote notebooks back in the day is obscene. Recipes. Scanned documents. Photos. Class notes.

I imagine I’ll look back on my Craft notes in 10 years and wonder whether sticking all that in there was really necessary 😅

Got an updated version of my college football playoff after this week’s games. Just a couple minor changes

• UCF’s win over Tulane puts them in the driver’s seat for the AAC
• USC benefits from Oregon’s loss and becomes my guess at the Pac-12’s automatic qualifier

It’s been fun seeing folks reflect on their internet lives as we watch Twitter burn.

I loved this post from Becky Hansmeyer. This quote really captures how I feel.

I simultaneously feel a sort of nervous optimism combined with a deep sense of loss

What could be wrong with this

There’s an incredibly simple solution to this, just let all of the conference champs in.

Now every game is important. All the little guys have a very real chance.

Thought I’d toss out my desired college football playoff format and what it would look like this year. I’ve posted about it in previous years (forgive the broken images…) but the TLDR is…

• 12 teams
• Every conference champ gets an automatic spot
• 2 at large spots
• Top 4 conference champs get an automatic bye
• First 2 rounds are at the stadium of the better seeded team, final 4 is at bowl sites just like they currently are.

Without further ado, here’s what the bracket would look like

Obvious disclaimer, we don’t know who will win every conference yet. So the champs and their rankings are rough projections.

Ironically, Twitter could have gotten me to pay for access at just about any time in the past decade. But not now. Not anytime soon