How would BCS rankings compare to College Football Playoff rankings?

The College Football Playoff field is set with the four best teams getting in, but what would the national championship look like if we still used the BCS?

With three undefeated conference champions, would the BCS rankings have a different order of teams than the playoff committee?

The committee selected the LSU Tigers at No. 1, the Ohio State Buckeyes at No. 2, the Clemson Tigers at No. 3 and the Oklahoma Sooners at No. 4. No. 1 will play No. 4 and No. 2 will play No. 3.

It was a pretty straightforward year for the committee to sort out, as the top-three seed were all undefeated Power 5 champions and Oklahoma getting in as a one-loss Power 5 champion. It would have been a much tougher time to figure out the National Championship Game if we were operating under the old BCS system.

Would LSU still be No. 1 in the BCS? Would Clemson get more respect? Would Ohio State have kept its top ranking?

Since it was largely based on the polls, the computers would have spit out the same top two teams as the playoff committee. They have ranked ahead of Clemson in the AP Poll and thus would have stayed ahead of the reigning national champions.

Of course, there would have been some major pushback by the team coming in at No. 3. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney would have surely played the disrespect card with his team not getting back to the national title despite beating teams by a larger margin than they did last year as national champions.

It would have been an unfair system, which is why college football moved away from the BCS to the four-team playoff.

But as it is now, nobody would be listening to Swinney’s plea to get Clemson into the championship bout because the Tigers would have maybe had one quality win (Virginia in the ACC Championship Game) on the season. Both LSU and Ohio State beat five quality teams to earn their spots.

We may very well see LSU play Ohio State in New Orleans in a few weeks for the national title. However, Ohio State has a tough national semifinal matchup with Clemson in the Playstation Fiesta Bowl. That’s why getting the No. 1 seed was so vital this year to avoid Clemson. It’s so much more difficult than facing Oklahoma who is creeping toward a double-digit underdog to LSU in the Peach Bowl.

This year, we had three outstanding teams and needed a seat-filler in Oklahoma. 2019 proved an eight-team playoff is not needed now.

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