With the College Football Playoff race holding steady -- six teams vying for four spots if we're generalizing, as we wrote last week -- let's take a look at an alternate universe: the 12-team playoff.
Since long before we knew the 12-team CFP was a reality, I've been fascinated by what college football would look like if that were the system in place. Thanks to the Allstate Playoff Predictor (and my colleagues on the analytics team that maneuvered it into a 12-team format), we're able to do just that: look at what we would be seeing if this were Week 9 of 2022 with 12 teams eventually making the playoff.