It’s March, which means two things: People up and down the East Coast are shocked when it snows, and we’ve all become obsessed with brackets. That led to this college football thought experiment: What would happen if we placed the 16 teams that have participated in the College Football Playoff over the four years of the format’s existence into a bracket and ran them through a time warp of a tournament?
Before revealing the hypothetical champion of champions, let’s explain why we seeded the teams the way we did, take a closer look at the matchups that yielded upsets and break down the imaginary title game.