College Football: What If Final 4 Playoff Format Existed in 2010?

2010 saw the birth of a legend in college football, Auburn’s Cam Newton. Out of relative obscurity at the beginning of the season to eventual Heisman trophy winner, Newton and his fellow Tiger teammates would cap a perfect season by defeating the Oregon Ducks 22-19 in the BCS championship, thus becoming the second school to ever finish 14-0.

If the Tigers, however, had played in the playoff system recently proposed by the heads of the major conferences last week, would they still emerge as champions? The following is a look at the potential participants in such a playoff, and how it might have differed from the current BCS system:

Semifinals:

1 Auburn Tigers vs. 4 Stanford Cardinal

These two teams would more than likely meet given that, in the current playoff format, the highest seeded team would face the lower seeded team.
This game would be an offensive showdown, as the Tigers averaged over 42 points a game, while their opponents, the Stanford Cardinal, averaged a littl...

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