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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4695260, member: 5685"]
Might as well do the B16 too.

9x - Ohio State
6x - Michigan
5x - Penn State
3x - Iowa, Michigan State, Wisconsin
2x - Northwestern
1x - Indiana

The big 3 will no longer play each other every year. So adding USC and UCLA won't be some big adjustment.

USC was Top 15 only 3x. So let's not act like they were a playoff team every year. UCLA only had ONE Top 15.

Both the B16 and SEC schools have strong conference schedules. They have no incentive to play anyone of note OOC, especially with the expanded playoffs. Although the SEC kind of has been that way anyway. So an SEC power can go 5-3 in conference and have a good year, while a B16 power can go 6-3.

Also you have bias in the polls. People will rank these teams higher than they will the B12 or P10 teams, and most ACC teams. They will put a 9-3 SEC team ahead of a 10-2 ACC/B12/P10 team.

Of the six at large spots, we will most likely see the B16/SEC grabbing 5 of them. In the past if you ain't first (in your division), you are last. Now without divisions if you ain't Top 3-4, you are last (2 of 14 < 3-4 of 16).
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