Pre-Bowl Rankings

Here are my "BCS" Rankings:

1: Alabama (13-0)
2: Texas (13-0)
3: Boise State (13-0)
4: Cincinnati (12-0)
5: Texas Christian (12-0)
6: Florida (12-1)
7: Georgia Tech (11-2)
8: Central Michigan (11-2)
9: Oregon (10-2)
10: Ohio State (10-2)
11: Iowa (10-2)
12: Penn State (10-2)
13: Brigham Young (10-2)
14: Houston (10-3)
15: Virginia Tech (9-3)
16: Miami (FL) (9-3)
17: Louisiana State (9-3)
18: West Virginia (9-3)
19: Pittsburgh (9-3)
20: Oklahoma State (9-3)
21: Wisconsin (9-3)
22: Utah (9-3)
23: Nebraska (9-4)
24: East Carolina (9-4)
25: Arizona (8-4)
26: Oregon State (8-4)
27: Stanford (8-4)
28: Southern Cal (8-4)
29: California (8-4)
30: Texas Tech (8-4)
31: North Carolina (8-4)
32: Mississippi (8-4)
33: Missouri (8-4)
34: Northwestern (8-4)
35: Clemson (8-5)
36: Georgia (7-5)
37: Oklahoma (7-5)

Honorable Mention: Troy (9-3), Mid Tennessee State (9-3), Temple (9-3), Ohio (9-4), Boston College (8-4), Rutgers (8-4), Navy (8-4), Central Florida (8-4), Fresno State (8-4), Nevada (8-4).

So if we took the 11 conference Champions and 5 other teams for a 16-team playoff and used my rankings to determine the 5 at-large bids and seeding, here's how the tournament would look (number represents rank not seed):
#1 Alabama vs. Troy
#8 Central Michigan vs. #9 Oregon
#5 TCU vs. #12 Penn State
#4 Cincinnati vs. #13 BYU
#3 Boise State vs. #14 Houston
#6 Florida vs. #11 Iowa
#7 Georgia Tech vs. #10 Ohio State
#2 Texas vs. #24 East Carolina
NOTE: The only two conference champs outside the top-16 were East Carolina and Troy, so they are the 15th and 16th seeds respectively.

Odds are we'd still end up with Texas and Alabama for the title. My true proposal would be to realign the conferences so we had ten 12-team conferences playing all eleven conference games, then do the 16-team tournament. But more on that another time.