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Every year I create a mythical 16 team tournament using the 11 conference champions and the top 5 BCS non winners. Using the BCS rankings for seeding purposes. #s 14,15,16 are not in the top BCS 25 so I used geographical proximity.

Here goes.

Central Michigan(16) @ Ohio State (1)
West Virginia (9) @ Kansas (8)
Florida (12) @ Georgia (5)
BYU (13) @ Oklahoma (4)
Central Florida (14) @ Virginia Tech (3)
Arizona State (11) @ Missouri (6)
Hawaii (10) @ Southern California (7)
Troy (15) @ Louisiana State (2)

Admittedly there are some dog first round games. But it gets interesting in the following rounds.

Every year I create a mythical 16 team tournament using the 11 conference champions and the top 5 BCS non winners. Using the BCS rankings for seeding purposes. #s 14,15,16 are not in the top BCS 25 so I used geographical proximity.

One big problem with this type of format is that it omits several teams good teams who were not conference champions and had better records than some of those in this playoff system. It would be more appropriate to select the 16 best without the requirement all conference champions are included and would be based solely on the regular season, sans the BCS or conference championship BS. Just for kicks my 16 would be as follows:

#1 Ohio State vs #16 Virginia
#8 Virginia Tech vs #9 Kansas
#5 Georgia vs #12 Oklahoma
#4 West Virginia vs #13 LSU
#3 Hawaii vs #14 BYU
#6 USC vs #11 Florida
#7 Tennessee vs #10 Illinois
#2 Missouri vs #15 Boston College

But Connecticut and West Virginia are technically the Big East “co-champs” this year - do we need another playoff game between those two to decide who gets the Big East birth? Or do the Mountaineers get it by default, as they beat UConn the other week?