College Football Playoff rankings: How would the BCS rankings look?

Without a clear-cut four great teams to make the College Football Playoff this year, the BCS is suddenly popular again but how would it look in 2020?

Remember when we all hated the BCS and demanded a College Football Playoff?

Yeah, we needed the playoff but we despise the playoff committee so suddenly the computers are back in trend. If the BCS were used to determine the four teams in the College Football Playoff, it would remove some of the inconsistencies with the committee such as Florida only dropping one spot after losing to LSU, the same as Cincinnati who didn’t even play. Or some of the irregularities involving the Group of Five teams and sometimes outright dismissing the on-field results.

The playoff rankings have Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame as the top four teams. Texas A&M and Oklahoma were the first two out. They got the rankings right, at least in the top four, but the debate rages on after the top four.

If the BCS was in place this year, how would they determine the College Football Playoff?

How the BCS rankings would differ from the College Football Playoff rankings

Often, the BCS would have one dominant team and the debate would be between the No. 2 and No. 3 teams. That’s halfway the case this year with Alabama the clear-cut best team in the nation thus far and would be the No. 1 seed in the BCS. After Clemson routed Notre Dame in the ACC Championship Game, the Tigers move up to the No. 2 spot where they’re also ranked in the AP Top 25 and Coaches Polls.

While the playoff committee has turned their eyes to the six-game schedule of Ohio State and basically said, “we don’t care” the BCS would hurt their case because of their strength of schedule with Indiana and Northwestern being their best wins. Because their game scheduled non-conference game with Oregon was lost, Penn State was bad and the game with Michigan (also bad) was canceled, Ohio State didn’t have the resume-boosters to vault Clemson. In this exercise, Ohio State would still be behind Clemson just as they are in the playoff rankings.

Notre Dame would be the No. 4 team followed by Texas A&M so that means the BCS would have the same top four as the College Football Playoff committee. The old BCS has had the same playoff field every year since the advent of the playoff format.

Much like the playoff committee, the BCS doesn’t shine favorably on undefeated Cincinnati and Coastal Carolina who should stage their own playoff and play for a Group of Five national championship. Invite the conference champions from the AAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, Conference USA and MAC and then invite the best at-large team, which would allow Independent teams like BYU, Liberty and Army to be included.

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