This is fun: Historical Playoff Seedings NCAA from 1988 on

#26
#26
BowlBrother85 said:
Yes. I think we would have been more deserving than Michigan.

Also, I think Kansas St would have gotten in over Florida in 1998. Florida had two losses.
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Michigan’s 1989 resume plus Big 10 Champs would have likely still gotten them in (their only loss came in a close game to a definitely playoff bound Notre Dame; they had wins vs an either top 10 or just outside it Illinois, a still-be-ranked Michigan St, and a still-be-ranked 8-3 Ohio State).

The SEC was unfortunately pretty abysmal in 1989. A 10-1 Tennessee had a great win over an Auburn team that would end the regular season in the top 10 or close to it ...but that was about it. Other than the win over the 8-3 Duke that became an ACC co-champion, there’s not really anything of note. The #6 UCLA team UT beat bottomed out to end the year at 3-7-1.

Plus UT also lost to SEC Co-Champ 10-1 Alabama...which although a strong loss, meant an SEC Champion scenario created by a 3-way tie in conference games between 10-1 Tennessee, 10-1 Alabama, and 9-2 Auburn....and with close to the exact same strength of schedule, Alabama probably would have gotten a pick over UT if it had to come down to it.
 
#28
#28
The ‘01 and ‘04 teams were worthy of a top 4 seed IMO. I might even try to argue the ‘06 team. That ‘06 team was an underrated squad and needed a couple breaks to bounce their way. ‘01 and ‘04 could have easily gotten those nods though
 
#29
#29
How are we not in in 1989? There were 3 teams in the SEC in the top 10 validating the strength of the conference that year and we were tops. Ridiculous.
 
#31
#31
TennTom said:
How are we not in in 1989? There were 3 teams in the SEC in the top 10 validating the strength of the conference that year and we were tops. Ridiculous.
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We were one of them, and we also only beat one of the other two (Auburn 21-14); we lost to the third one (Alabama beat us 37-20)...and honestly the Auburn game turned into possibly UT’s only worthwhile win at all (thanks to UCLA).

Everyone outside of Tennessee, Alabama, and Auburn in the SEC finished the regular season: 7-4, 7-4, 6-5, 6-5, 4-7, 5-6, 1-10. (Plus all things considered, I don’t see why 10-1 SEC Co-Champ Alabama wouldn’t have gotten the nod since they beat us.)
 
#32
#32
The 2001 Miami was not an unbeatable team. Yes, they had a ton of future NFL talent, but they weren't unbeatable. A lot of the dominant wins they notched were against so-so to outright bad teams.

Other than #4 Nebraska in the BCS championship game, they did not play a top 10 team that year. They did dominate them, but they didn't dominate every team they played. They won by 2 over a good but not great Virginia Tech team in the ACC Championship game, who had a game winning touchdown pass dropped. An OK Boston College team held their supposedly unstoppable offense to under 20, losing 18 - 7. VT ended at 18, BC ended at 23. Florida State, Washington, and Syracuse also finished in the top 25, with Syracuse ending up the highest ranked at 14.

One of the reasons the computer simulators never rank the Miami 2001 team as high as people is the computer takes out the fact 38 players for Miami had NFL careers. The Simulators look solely at what the team did on the field. Miami blew out a bunch of really bad teams, dominated 3 OK teams, struggled against 2 other OK teams, and beat one good team. Its not that great of a resume, and its appropriate to assume Oregon's 2001 and Florida's 2001 squad would have been as competitive as the less talented Virginia Tech and Boston College teams that played them close in real life.
 
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