Premature Look at the Fymbo Formula™: A College Football Playoff That Works

Here's what it would look like using the establish formula:

New Year's Day: Round 1

Rose
#1 Alabama vs #8 West Virginia

Sugar
#2 Texas Tech vs #7 North Carolina

Orange
#3 Penn State vs #6 Utah

Fiesta
#4 Texas vs #5 USC


The problem with how this looks now, is that the Big East and ACC don't have any teams in the top 18. Are they even deserving of a automatic berth?

Instead of giving each conference an automatic berth, I could restructure to go based on rankings, restricting each conference to maximum two teams, and including at least one non-BCS team if they are in the top 16.

That would give us:

New Year's Day: Round 1

Rose
#1 Alabama vs #8 Boise State

Sugar
#2 Texas Tech vs #7 Utah

Orange
#3 Penn State vs #6 USC

Fiesta
#4 Texas vs #5 Florida

It's just odd that right now they are 4 Big 12 teams in the top 10 in the BCS. But that will get sorted out. Also odd that are two non-BCS teams in the top 10.

Still, this is an improvement over the inclusion of those putrid ACC/Big East schools.

Also, a prediction: Neither Alabama nor Texas Tech will play in the National Championship.