Of the 16 teams, these are the highest predicted.
I’m going to start with one team making it. Let’s see if the conference has any legs at all. Trying to find a meaningful game played so far and won…
Looks like the CFP ranking has started around week 9 in recent years, so you have some time to model your superior product.
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Thank you!
Finally some recognition, I…
Wait a minute, i smell sarcasm…
Nope
Yours is more intuitive from a “who controls their own destiny” vs “how much help does this team need” perspective.
Then, a sincere thank you.
This one is going to be a lot more difficult.
LA Times’ columnist wrote:
Suddenly, the fantasy feels grounded in reality. Suddenly, the best-case scenario feels entirely possible.
USC can reach the College Football Playoff.
Let’s rephrase that.
USC should reach the College Football Playoff.
Like manna has come from Heaven and no one starved… no, just College Football and playoff possibility.
OK, checking the schedule… USC can afford to lose one game, just like every other team who eventually makes the playoff. If getting to the playoff was the goal, instead of moneymoneymoney, Pac 12 would still be thriving. Only would have to be the Pac 12 Champion. Perhaps that was too hard, and money is easier?
So, third place in the Big 10 with one loss is the sweet spot. Don’t have to play an extra game and possibly lose the playoff spot with a humiliating loss. So, lose one Big10 game, and pummel ND at home.
So no peak, off the top of my head:
three Big 10,
three SEC
Two ACC
One Big 12
Highest not Power 4 team/champion
Two others lucky enough to make it.
First look at GoA Playoff Picture, conferences only…
Looking at the current rankings (AP), it is:
- 5 champions (UGA (#1), tOSU (#3), da U #10), UU (#12), a Huskies team (#25));
- 5 more SEC teams (UT #2, Ala (#4), Ole Miss (#5), UT (#6), MU (#7)).
- 2 Big 10 teams (PSU (#8), Ore (#9)).
Hey, look at that, the AP Poll is bunching up Conference teams! Very thoughtful to steal my idea!
I’m guessing it is possible that 6 SEC teams end up in the CFP Football Playoff. Maybe not these specific ones. I mean, LSU could win the rest of its games and make the CFP Football Playoff with one loss to USCw.
I read that there have never been 6 teams from a single conference in the top 7 in the history of the AP top 25. There have never been 5 before either.
Has there ever been a conference with 16 teams before?
True.
I mean, Texas and OU were going to be up there anyway.
From 2PAC to 6PAC (in 2026)
LSU getting spanked early by the other USC 17-0.
Exciting game, LSU closed to 30-29, USC FG to make it 33-29. LSU has ball with about 3:00 to go.
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I record a ton of games and watch relatively shortly tape delayed the ones that interest me, then look at scores and go back and watch ones that seem especially interesting. LSU/SC was one of those. UCF/TCU was another.
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Already making waves, beating a Big 10 team!
Saw something about the 2PAC/6PAC commissioner saying that they would welcome the Colorado Buffaloes back if they found the BIG 12 too tough. 
The US cracks me up sometimes.
Tennesse is introducing a 10% “talent fee” in the price of their tickets.
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I hope they get a ton of flack for that, but something tells me more schools will adopt something similar. That, or schools will just raise ticket prices by X% without explicitly stating a “talent fee”. I don’t have a good gauge on where ticket prices were pre-NIL compared to now, but I’m assuming they’ve already gone up considerably.
I’m all for paying players but think it is absolutely absurd to keep asking fans to foot the bill. Athletic departments have pleeeennnnntttyyyy of money to go around, stop asking fans to pay more and more and more.
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Do they?
I’ll have to see if anyone is keeping up with Athletic Department budgets and their deficits due mainly to Football, especially in this new environment.
Iirc, the big schools are the only ones who have profitable athletic departments. Football is the most expensive sport, but also big revenue. Fb and Mens bb tend to be the programs that fund the others within a dept. But that is old info and blanket generalization.
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2023 data:
No links but I think this is still the case. Within the last year or two a journalist covering my alma mater published revenues/expenses and football and MBB were the revenue drivers and subsidized all the other programs.
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