(06-10-2021 06:02 PM)franklyconfused Wrote: I went back and pulled the final committee rankings for 2019 to get a more "normal" year with full schedules. That would have been:
Byes: 1 LSU, 2 Ohio St., 3 Clemson, 4 Oklahoma
On-campus first round games:
17 Memphis @ 5 Georgia
11 Utah @ 6 Oregon (I assume the rankings would be massaged to avoid this)
10 Penn. St. @ 7 Baylor
9 Florida @ 8 Wisconsin
Count by conference
3: SEC, Big Ten
2: XII, PAC-12
1: ACC, American
0: C-USA, MAC, MWC, Sun Belt
An
article on ESPN+ today (paywalled if not subscribed to ESPN+) gives what would have been the 12-team playoff fields going back to 2014:
2014: 1 G5 (12-seed Boise St.), 3 SEC, 3 XII, 2 B10, 2 Pac12, 1 ACC
2015: 1 G5 (12-seed UH), 4 ACC/ND, 3 B10, 2 XII, 1 SEC, 1 Pac12
2016: 1 G5 (12-seed Western Michigan), 4 B10, 3 Pac12, 2 ACC, 1 SEC, 1 XII
2017: 1 G5 (12-seed UCF), 3 B10, 3 SEC, 2 Pac12, 2 ACC, 1 XII
2018: 1 G5 (8-seed UCF), 4 SEC, 3 B10, 2 ACC/ND, 1 Pac12, 1 XII
ETA: UT would not have made any of the fields, while Baylor and TCU would have made it twice, and UH and A&M also would have gone once each.