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2022 25 team tournament simulation

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I run this simulation every year. I’ll explain the format.

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College football rankings: Associated Press Top 25

Get NCAA college football rankings from the College Football Playoff committee, Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Poll.
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It’s a minimum of 25 teams.

The receiving votes will all play each other whoever wins out plays the 25th ranked team

The lowest seeded team will always play the highest seeded team as the tournament advances.

If your in the top 15 you have to win 4 games to win it all, 16th 5 games, 17th 6 games, 18-24 7 games, 25th 8 games.

For the receiving votes teams, I have to make it an even number since I have 12 teams so I will have the bottom 4 play each other so I can cut it to 8. In order for one of these unranked teams to win it all they have to win 3 games just to play the 25th ranked team in order to get into the 25 team playoff, the bottom 4 of unranked teams have to win 5 games. To win it all an unranked team needs to win 13 games to win it all, 15 for the bottom 4 of the unranked teams. My math might be a bit off there but you can see that the higher ranked teams have an advantage and lower ranked teams have a severe disadvantage.

I’ll run the simulation in a bit.
 
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All games are played on a neutral field higher seeded team is the home team.

Receiving votes play in (bottom 4)

James Madison vs Boise State
James Madison wins 41-34 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Minnesota vs Pitt
Pitt wins 44-21

James Madison vs Pitt
Pitt wins 41-24 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Pitt vs Illinois ( to get into the top 8 of receiving votes tourney)
Pitt wins 53-0 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Top 8 of unranked teams lowest vs highest.
Pitt vs UNC, South Alabama vs UCF, Purdue vs Cincinnati, Fresno State vs Ole Miss.
 
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Pitt vs UNC
Pitt wins 24-21

South Alabama vs UCF
South Alabama wins 36-21

Purdue vs Cincinnati
Cincinnati wins 37-22

Fresno State vs Ole Miss
Fresno State wins 36-18

Receiving votes semi finals

South Alabama vs Fresno State
South Alabama wins 22-21 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Pitt vs Cincinnati
Pitt wins 55-23 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Receiving votes final ( winner plays 25th ranked team)

South Alabama vs Pitt
Pitt wins 17-12 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Pitt vs 25 NC State
Pitt wins 31-19 WhatIfSports.com: College Football Boxscore

Unranked Pitt gets into the 25 team tournament they are on fire. So 25 team playoff is all set.
 
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Pitt vs 21 Texas
Pitt wins 28-16

24 Mississippi State vs 23 Troy
Mississippi State wins 45-24

Pitt vs 24 Mississippi State (winner plays 17 Oregon State)
Mississippi State wins 24-20

24 Mississippi State vs 17 Oregon State
Oregon State wins 33-16

17 Oregon State vs 16 LSU ( winner goes to the 16 team plays and plays Georgia)
Oregon State wins 45-20
 
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16 team playoff is all set

17 Oregon vs 1 Georgia

15 Oregon vs 2 Michigan

14 Tulane vs 3 TCU

13 Florida State vs 4 Ohio State

12 Washington vs 5 Alabama

11 Kansas State vs 6 Tennessee

10 Clemson vs 7 Utah

9 Penn State vs 8 USC
 
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Pitt on its longest win streak since Johnny Majors and Tony Dorsett.
 
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Scoe said:
16 team playoff is all set

17 Oregon vs 1 Georgia

15 Oregon vs 2 Michigan

14 Tulane vs 3 TCU

13 Florida State vs 4 Ohio State

12 Washington vs 5 Alabama

11 Kansas State vs 6 Tennessee

10 Clemson vs 7 Utah

9 Penn State vs 8 USC
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Oregon has to be Georgia and Michigan?
 
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12 Washington vs 5 Alabama
Washington wins 34-27

11 Kansas State vs 6 Tennessee
Tennessee wins 44-20

10 Clemson vs 7 Utah
Clemson wins 34-16

9 Penn State vs 8 USC
USC wins 35-24

Check out that box score USC was down 13 with just over 2 minutes left how stupid was Penn State taking a knee giving the ball back to Caleb Williams.
 
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Elite 8 (like I said lowest vs highest ranked as you advance)

14 Tulane vs 1 Georgia

13 Florida State vs 2 Michigan

12 Washington vs 6 Tennessee

10 Clemson vs 8 USC
 
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SubbaBub said:
Pitt on its longest win streak since Johnny Majors and Tony Dorsett.
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Won 9 in a row, guess they ran out of gas in 2nd half against Mississippi State as they had a 20-7 lead.
 
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So, this tourney goes until opening day for MLB?
 
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Why 25? No tourney would ever be formatted like that/this. It is likely to expand to 12 in a few years though, so why not do a field of 12?
 
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Travelman32 said:
Why 25? No tourney would ever be formatted like that/this. It is likely to expand to 12 in a few years though, so why not do a field of 12?
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Why not have a 25 team tournament. Simulating a 12 team tournament is too boring. 7 out of the 8 teams who made the elite 8 are in the top 12.

This tourney shows that the higher ranked you are the bigger advantage you have lower ranked you have a significant disadvantage especially if your an unranked team. Teams who don’t have a legit shot who just made the tourney come back next year with more motivation to making it into the top 12.
 
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