For those interested, here's teams 26-35 in our final simulated BCS rankings of the year:

With the last piece of the simulated BCS puzzle locked into place, the official side-by-side bracket ends up looking a bit closer than it did this morning.

However the key difference remains: the BCS prefers Notre Dame, the committee preferred Miami.

Here it is, the final simulated BCS rankings of the 2025 college football season:

A mostly official, but not completely official, side-by-side of the playoff brackets the committee and the simulated BCS would've generated at season's end:

We've got four of our national computer rankings finalized this morning — let's take a look at them side-by-side:

With just the conference championship games left, let's compare how the current committee rankings and simulated BCS would seed their respective 12-team playoffs:

(Assuming higher ranked teams win their respective conference auto-bids)

For easy comparison: Tonight's just-released committee rankings side by side with our simulated BCS:

This season’s penultimate simulated BCS standings are here:

With last night’s committee rankings release, let’s compare how the committee would seed a 12-team playoff vs. how the BCS would seed one:

(And yes, know that Miami has a tough road to that 11-seed in both brackets — choosing conference champion by highest rank here).

A fascinating side-by-side of this week's playoff committee rankings and our latest simulated BCS:

FIXED: This week's latest simulated BCS rankings are here:

This week's simulated BCS rankings are here:

For ease of comparison: Tonight’s latest committee rankings against our most up-to-date simulated BCS:

Let's take a look at this week's simulated BCS rankings:

Based on our latest side-by-side, here's how the two systems would fill out a 12-team playoff bracket:

For easy comparison, let's take a look at last night's committee rankings side-by-side with our simulated BCS:

Here's a look at our latest simulated BCS rankings:

Based on our first side-by-side of the season, here's another comparison — potential 12-team playoff brackets via the simulated #BCS and the playoff committee

For the first time this season, let's take a look at a side-by-side of our simulated BCS and the committee rankings:

With the first committee rankings of the year set to be released Tuesday night, here's how the BCS might've viewed this college football season so far:

As we get closer to the first @CFBPlayoff committee rankings, let's take a look at this week's simulated #BCS:

Let's take a look at our latest set of simulated BCS rankings:

Hello again! We're back! For the first time this season, let’s take a look at what the “BCS” would have had to say about this fascinating college football season so far:

Here's the season's end side-by-side comparison of the simulated #BCS and the committee's final top 25 rankings:

In the first 12-team edition of the college football playoff, the simulated #BCS and the committee include 11 of the same teams, disagreeing only on Alabama vs. SMU. Here's your side-by-side brackets under both:

The simulated #BCS is out and it would seed the 12-team playoff in its own way. In nine of the 10 years prior, the committee included the exact same teams in its four-team playoff as the #BCS would've. We'll see soon how 2024 will compare:

Here it is, what we’ve been waiting for — the season-ending simulated #BCS rankings. How will the committee rankings compare?

And, with just one week of action remaining, here’s how the simulated #BCS and the @CFBPlayoff
committee would end up filling out their respective 12-team brackets:

Our penultimate side-by-side comparison of this week’s simulated #BCS and the just-released
@CFBPlayoff rankings:

As many of you have correctly pointed out, yesterday's simulated #BCS rankings would give us a fascinating potential 12-team playoff. We’ll see how the College Football Playoff committee’s version of this bracket looks tomorrow: