The Sooners won the Big 12 Championship Game and finished as the only 12-0 team, clearly earning the #1 seed. Ranked just #19 in the preseason polls, Oklahoma surged to an undefeated season under 2nd-year head coach Bob Stoops. Let the games begin - here's what should have been: How different would the college football landscape look if the 4-team playoff had come 16 years sooner? Would the SEC still have held the crystal trophy for 7 straight seasons? Would Oregon have a championship by now? How would the famous #3 teams such as 2000 Miami, 2003 USC, 2004 Auburn, and 2011 Oklahoma State fare with a shot at glory? Would the BCS busters prove themselves? We will simulate each matchup 25 times for a more accurate sample size, and report the series results and average score. Once the bracket is set, we will throw the historical matchups into the game simulator over at What If Sports, a complex algorithm that simulates any matchup of teams from 1996 to the present. As a staff, we will analyze, debate, and ultimately select the 4 most deserving teams and seed them #1 through #4. This offseason, we will take the role of the Selection Committee and look at how every BCS season (1998-2013) would have played out in the current College Football Playoff setup. The old BCS system would have produced a National Championship Game of #1 Florida State (only undefeated) and #2 Alabama (SEC Champion), but with both of those squads losing in the National Semifinals, the new system is instantly validated. After decades of dreaming about it, years demanding it, and months arguing about it, the Playoff Era is finally here.

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