My ideal format qualifies all league champions and the top six remaining teams. League champions are determined by best conference record then finish in Power Points Standings. Power Points Standings determine wildcard teams. All 16 qualifiers are seeded by finish in Power Points Standings. Higher seeds host through semifinals and flexible bracket is used so that advancing teams are paired highest versus lowest remaining seed, 2nd highest versus 2nd lowest, and so on in each round. Here is the field if current highest placed teams win out. *Automatic berth.
1 -Alabama 65*
2 -Ohio State 63*
3 -Florida State 63*
4 -Missouri 61
5 -Baylor 58*
6 -Arizona State 58*
7 -Oklahoma State 56
8 -Stanford 56
9 -Auburn 54
10 -Clemson 53
11 -Fresno State 48*
12 -Central Florida 48*
13 -Northern Illinois 46*
14 -Michigan State 45
15 -East Carolina 29*
16 -Louisiana-Lafayette 28*
With one game remaining for most teams, six playoff berths have been clinched by Alabama, Ohio State, Florida State, Auburn, Fresno State, and Northern Illinois. Teams still alive but not listed above include Louisville, Cincinnati, Oklahoma, Marshall, Rice, USC, Arkansas State, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Duke, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Oregon, and UCLA. No team has clinched homefield through the first round. The Alabama-Auburn game would have homefield through semifinals versus playing first round on road at stake, Clemson-South Carolina and Oklahoma State-Oklahoma would have a playoff berth at stake. Teams like Missouri can finish as high as a two seed or miss the playoffs altogether although both would take a lot to happen. Seven league titles are still up for grabs. So, with this format, 30 teams still in it with a week plus left. Six of 16 berths clinched. No team has clinched even a first round home game. So, lots of potential for sandbagging and the sacred regular season is ruined?
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