WyoNation Bracketology: Preseason

College football season has returned to Wyoming and the Mountain West and with that we’re going to debut a new blog on WyoNation.com this season. We’re going to be doing some weekly bracketology for the new, revamped 12 team playoff. This is my purely uneducated guess at how things are shaping up for the playoff, who’s on top, who’s on the bubble, and probably a lot of things that will make you angry.

I will preface this blog with this is my week 0/preseason guess. I realize that by the time this blog posts Florida State has already lost to Georgia Tech in an absolute banger in Ireland and they will likely not be in this playoff bracket after week one games are done. For this pre-season exercise they are in the number ten slot and in the playoffs. But it is hilarious they are currently ranked 17th in the ACC football standings.

This college football season has been one of change. There is no more Pac12 conference. Those teams have since moved on to the Big 12, Big 10, and ACC (WTF?). Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC will see some stiffer competition as they slide over to the Big 10. Stanford and Cal will bizarrely fit into the ACC and probably still have no one at their home games. Arizona State, Arizona, Utah, Colorado will slide over to the Big 12. Utah figures to be immediately competitive in that conference, as will Arizona. Washington State and Oregon State are currently homeless, but will play a Mountain West football schedule this season.

Moving to the SEC was Texas and Oklahoma. I just … this is dumb. I hate it.

We have now ended up with a 12 team playoff. I guess that’s good… but also bad, because it’s probably going to look like a Big 10 vs SEC tournament, with scraps left over for the Big 12, ACC, and one… -ONE- slot for the group of five champion. There will be some fancy computer ranking to determine who that team is.

With all of that being said, let’s get to the playoff bracket. We’ll have a lot more to talk about next week, but for right now this is where I see things:



Top 20:

1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Oregon
4. Alabama
5. Texas
6. Ole Miss
7. Notre Dame
8. Penn State
9. Michigan
10. Florida State
11. Missouri
12. Utah
13. LSU
14. Clemson
15. Oklahoma
16. Tennessee
17. Oklahoma State
18. Kansas State
19. Arizona
20. Texas A&M

Last four power 5 out:

1. Missouri
2. LSU
3. Clemson
4. Oklahoma

Group of Five Top 10:

1. Boise State
2. Liberty
3. Memphis
4. Appalachian State
5. Tulane
6. Miami
7. Texas State
8. Wyoming
9. Air Force
10. UTSA

Come back next week at the conclusion of week one for more updates. This blog will typically post on Monday’s, however, I’m going to be a degenerate and will be in Las Vegas over the Labor Day weekend. When I physically and mentally return from vacation this blog will get posted up with some hazy and lackluster thoughts and an updated bracket.