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:

With the regular season complete, let's take a look our second-to-last simulated #BCS rankings of the year, where Notre Dame slides past Penn State to No. 3 and Boise State cracks the top 10:

After some misalignments on bracket seeding last week, the simulated #BCS and tonight's @CFBPlayoff fill out striking similar 12-team playoff brackets (if the season ended today) — reordering three of four road teams in the opening round:

Amazingly, we've only got two of these left this season — here's the latest side-by-side of our simulated #BCS and the just-released committee rankings:

As we close in on the final frames of the season, let's take a look at how the simulated #BCS rankings would judge this year so far — featuring a perfect-scoring No. 1 Oregon and some rearrangement in the top 10:

The most interesting side-by-side 12-team brackets so far this season has a different set of bye teams and some fascinating matchup differences from the committee and the simulated #BCS. However! The same 12 teams:

Let’s take our regular look at this week’s College Football Playoff rankings side-by-side with the simulated #BCS for two perspectives on this season to date:

Here’s our most up-to-date look at what the #BCS would look like were it still alive to grade the 2024 season to date. Losses by BYU and Tennessee clear out some space in the top 10 for a bit of a rankings shuffle:

The final side-by-side rankings of the season spell out the vast differences in the two systems' feelings this season -- unique in the 10-year history of the College Football Playoff:

The simulated BCS rankings that we've all been waiting for. The BCS prefers Florida State, the College Football Playoff says otherwise:

Not much separates this week’s simulated #BCS and the CFP committee’s just-released rankings. Three one-spot flip-flops in the top 17 give way for a little disagreement further down the list. Which do you prefer? Compare the entire top 25 right here:

The simulated #BCS is here — and it's fascinating. Georgia and Michigan pull away, FSU and Washington settle into the top four and 5-8 is bunched up, all setting up the final weekend. The full top 25: