With the College Football Playoff bracket set - and noticeably absent a Missouri Tigers football team - I wanted to run through the final CFP rankings and explore a question that some of us may have been asking over the past three weeks:
Would Missouri have made the Playoff if they had beaten South Carolina?
So let’s explore!
In this alternate history journey I’m going to change only one thing: on 2nd-and-4 from Missouri’s 15-yard line, Rocket Sanders catches the shovel pass but the first hit from Johnny Walker, Jr. knocks the ball out of his hands and Missouri recovers.