Week 12 BCS-Style Rankings of the 2016 College Football Playoff Field

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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With the new College Football Playoff rankings coming out later today, let’s look at how the BCS would rank the top teams after Week 12 action.

Thanksgiving action approaches as teams across the country prepare to face one of their biggest rivals. The action will include two of the teams vying for one of the four coveted College Football Playoff spots. All of the top ten will be jockeying for position in the new system. But that begs the question of just how different the new, more subjective system is from the BCS formula of yesteryear.

Last week we saw that there really was no difference whatsoever between how the College Football Playoff committee decided to fill out their semifinal bracket and how the BCS would have filled the same role. While the current process gives greater leeway for humans to determine the final results, it also opens the door for a lot of second-guessing and opaque logic being applied to the decision-making process.

Keeping that in mind, what might the field of contenders look like if they were playing for the crystal pigskin of the BCS instead of the new CFP trophy? Here is how teams would be ranked in the old BCS system after 12 weeks of play in the 2016 season:

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