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Related: About this forumWhich college team would have been ranked #1 under the old Bowl system?
Any thoughts? I'll give you one: it wouldn't have been Ohio State.

rurallib
(64,070 posts)Auggie
(32,512 posts)vs ... who?
Notre Dame? Penn State? Indiana?
rurallib
(64,070 posts)If you mean who would be #1 after some bowl games or playoff games, well, we had a playoff and it is OSU.
As it is there was playoff and OSU won it.
Auggie
(32,512 posts)Before playoffs. If Oregon were still in the Pac 10 they could have played the Big 10 champion which could have been Indiana. And I could see Oregon winning by a large margin.
Moot conversation because the old Bowl system is history, though it's fun to speculate. And it underscores how absurd the old system truly was.
spooky3
(37,772 posts)rurallib
(64,070 posts)and I interpreted the question on the old way to mean with no post season. Postseason pairings would affect rankings.
MichMan
(15,756 posts)Oregon won on the regular season
rurallib
(64,070 posts)whichever - they had a playoff - OSU won and that is that
hlthe2b
(111,085 posts)So, if, as last year it was a 4-team playoff, Ohio State would not even be in the playoffs but it would have likely been among these top four.