BCS Playoffs (ESPN)

BCS

ESPN has created a College Football Playoffs Simulation that allows you to create a 16 team bracket using either the BCS ranking, ESPN Power 16, or custom rankings to determine the champion of college football.  While it is a simulation, it is still fun to see who is victories.  In my first simulation using the BCS rankings the Tennesse Volunteers managed to climb to the cream of the crop as the 16 seed beating OSU, WVU, Illinois, and Missouri in the Championship game.  The Trojans were the final team to make the final four of this college football playoff.  I know its only a simulation, but it is a little ironic that two teams that are not even in a BCS game were in the championship game.  The simulation also shows the probabilities of each team winning each game, and it should be noted that Hawaii was the biggest underdog to USC (81%-19%) followed by the Illini and Oklahoma (21% to 78%).  In my brackets Tennesse was an underdog every single game.

Using ESPN Power 16 the final four was OSU, Georgia, Oklahoma, LSU and the winner was the Georgia Bulldogs.  Now that you have finished reading my simulations, try it out for yourself.  After several other attempts Tennessee won again over USC.  I wonder how this simulation was programmed.