This will probably never happen (the Almighty could not allow it), but it is fun to speculate. After the SEC Championship Game you have the following:
1. UGA is SEC Champs but lost one game -- to AU.
2. UA is SEC West Champs, losing one game -- to UGA.
3. AU is runner-up to UA, having lost one game -- to UA.
All have won the rest of their games easily, meaning that the SEC has established itself as the dominant football D-1 conference.
Who gets in the playoffs? UGA -- yes as SEC Champs. UA -- 1 loss and ranked #1 all of the year? AU -- ranked in the top 5 even after losing to UA? Precedent would include AU...cannot fathom 3 SEC teams getting in....
Thoughts???
Your scenario has too many unknown variables.
1) You're ASSUMING Georgia gets in because they won the SEC.
They probably do. But what if Tua got hurt in the first quarter (a la Colt McCoy)
and we lost in overtime by a referee's blunder? What if it was a game where we outgained them by 200 yards and went up and down the field
but Tua would have made the difference?
2) Part of it depends on what happens elsewhere.
An unbeaten Clemson, Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, or Michigan will go. Period. No argument. There are a few other teams that would also
go if unbeaten regardless of SOS: Notre Dame, Miami, Michigan St, Wisconsin, Nebraska. (My list isn't exhaustive or meant to be).
I could see three SEC teams IF almost every other conference member had NO LESS than two losses.
Let's go back a bit (and this won't work exactly).
One of the strongest arguments against the BCS that 81 and I bring up is the 2003 Oklahoma Sooners, that "greatest team of all-time" that got smoked
by Kansas State, 35-7. In a two-team BCS, they were undeserving. It's even more embarrassing that right after getting blown out they were the number one ranked team in the country.
however.....if there had been a four-team playoff, OU would have HAD to go. Three teams had one loss: LSU, USC, and OU. The fourth one-loss team, Boise State, was not given serious consideration by the BCS (#17) and didn't deserve any. But it would have been very interesting to have seen how a vote would have decided between two-loss Michigan, Ohio St, FSU, Tennessee, and Miami. I think Michigan would have gotten the nod, but who knows?
They might have chosen defending champion Ohio State in 2003.....
Then there's 2007.
Who gets in?
The only sure things I can think of are one-loss Ohio State and - probably - two-loss LSU.
Who else gets in?
Va Tech (11-2) - lost to LSU, 48-7, and to BC, 14-10
Oklahoma (11-2) - 3-point loss to Colorado on last play FG, seven-point loss to Leach (9-4)
Georgia (11-2) - didn't win the East but a lot of folks thought they were the best team in the country; got routed by Vols
and never played LSU
Mizzou (11-2) - both losses to OU
USC (11-2) - two close losses to Oregon and 41-point underdog Stanford
Kansas - only one loss but perhaps the weakest SOS of any "contender" since BYU in 1984
Hawaii (12-0) - ?????
If you're asking what I THINK would happen with the current setup, I think your four teams are Ohio State, LSU, Oklahoma and USC.
3) The committee was impressed with two-loss Auburn, who would have made it last year.
It ended badly for Auburn, but give the committee credit: Auburn DID look VERY good in those two big games against UGA and us at
JHS. They effectively lost their season with the LSU collapse. I think if Alabama played Auburn last year we probably win 8 of 10 away
from JHS, but Auburn was a deserving team had they beaten UGA in the rematch.
I seriously doubt there's a scenario short of cross conference mediocrity that would enable this. Remember, every win for one SEC team is
a loss for another one - so you're likely to offset those three powers with 3 of the worst teams in all CFB, which will lower perceived
conference strength, too.
