College Football Playoff: Building the perfect chaos scenario

Is your team out or do you just love chaos? Here’s a blueprint for an unprecedented finish that blows up the current College Football Playoff format.

The College Football Playoff is a significant improvement from what came before. It didn’t take more than one season to prove that the best team in the country might not be one of the top two finishers in the polls. 4-Seed Ohio State knocked off 1-Seed Alabama then 2-Seed Oregon to win the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship.

There will always be the lingering doubt regarding whether or not the Buckeyes were worthy of a selection in the first place. Ohio State (11-1) jumped TCU (11-1) in the final week of the season. That left the Big 12 out of the Playoff entirely and exposed one obvious flaw of the four-team format – there are five major conferences.

It became immediately clear that expansion needed to happen at some point. That doesn’t even take into account schools outside of the Power 5 conferences. What about teams like Boise State in the early 2000’s, or for that matter, UCF in 2017?

If you team is already out of the running and/or you love chaos consider this your rooting guide for total madness come selection time. Here are the results, broken up by conference, that force expansion talks to go from a distant future to an immediate discussion item and make 2017 the most chaotic College Football Playoff ever.