Welcome to the fourth Selection Sunday of the new Protest Playoff!
For this first section of playoff recreations (2014-2024), this will be pretty easy. We have the committee’s final CFP rankings for each year and can seed off those, along with champions.
In case you’ve already forgotten, the final CFP rankings for the 2021 season were (conference champions designated by asterisks):
Alabama* (12-1)
Michigan* (12-1)
Georgia (12-1)
Cincinnati* (13-0)
Notre Dame (11-1)
Ohio State (10-2)
Baylor* (11-2)
Ole Miss (10-2)
Oklahoma State (11-2)
Michigan State (10-2)
Utah* (10-3)
Pittsburgh* (11-2)
BYU (10-2)
Oregon (10-3)
Iowa (10-3)
Oklahoma (10-2)
Wake Forest (10-3)
NC State (9-3)
Clemson (9-3)
Houston (11-2)
Arkansas (8-4)
Kentucky (9-3)
Louisiana* (12-1)
San Diego State (11-2)
Texas A&M (8-4)
Other teams who made appearances in the CFP rankings in November and/or December, but could not stay in the final set, included Auburn (6-7), Fresno State (10-3), Minnesota (9-4), Mississippi State (7-6), Purdue (9-4), UTSA (12-2) and Wisconsin (9-4).
Our Actual Field: 16 Teams, 5+11 Model
Under this model, the five* highest ranked conference champions — Alabama (SEC), Michigan (Big Ten), Cincinnati (AAC), Baylor (Big 12), and Utah (Pac-12) — all would receive automatic bids, even though only three of them made the actual four-team playoff.
But seeding and byes are not tied to championship status, a decision that matches the one already reached for the 2025 12-team playoff after just one year of a flawed seeding process almost no one (outside of the ACC, Big 12 or Mountain West conferences) liked very much.
The remaining 11 teams* are drawn from the highest-ranked remaining schools in the committee’s final playoff rankings, yielding the following list of national seeds for PP…
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