2014-15 Playoffs
Rose #2 Florida St vs #3 Auburn
Sugar #1 Miss St vs #4 Oregon
Assumed location on the match ups above giving #1 closest to home field advantage...2014-15 Contract Bowl
Orange Bowl — ACC #1 (#21 Clemson) vs. highest ranked SEC #2, Big Ten #2, or Notre Dame (#5 Alabama)
2014-15 At-Large/Guarantees
Peach Bowl — at-large or "Group of Five"
Cotton Bowl — at-large or "Group of Five"
Fiesta Bowl — at-large or "Group of Five"
P5 champs not included: #6 TCU & #8 MSU
Highest ranked Go5 champ: None ranked in CFP Top 25 but assumed Marshall (#23 AP/#22 Coaches)
Next 3 highest ranked: #7 Kansas St. #9 ASU & #10 ND
Not making calls on who would match with who - but those are the ones that would play in NY6 games....
RED = playoff team; GREEN = contract/guarantee; Bold BLUE = At-Large
RK TEAM RECORD
1 Mississippi State 8-0
2 Florida State 8-0
3 Auburn 7-1
4 Oregon 8-15 Alabama 7-1
6 TCU 7-17 Kansas State 7-18 Michigan State 7-19 Arizona State 7-1
10 Notre Dame 7-1
11 Ole Miss 7-2
12 Baylor 7-1
13 Nebraska 8-1
14 Ohio State 7-1
15 Oklahoma 6-2
16 LSU 7-2
17 Utah 6-2
18 UCLA 7-2
19 Arizona 6-2
20 Georgia 6-2
21 Clemson 6-2
22 Duke 7-1
23 West Virginia 6-3
24 Georgia Tech 7-2
25 Wisconsin 6-2
UR Marshall 8-0
The current state is what a lot may have speculated about having 2 SEC teams in the playoffs. This shows that if a team (like BYU) happened to have gotten to top 5-7 at the end of the year they would have been in. And possibly as low as 8-10...
10/29:
http://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=13215083