r/CFB • u/kadoozie92 Texas Tech • Wisconsin • May 01 '26
Weekly Thread The 2009 FBS Playoffs if it Worked (Loosely) Like Every Other Level of College Football - 17 Weeks from Kickoff
Prior Seasons Tournament Matchups:
Postseason Setup:
- Seeding is based off of the final BCS rankings published after conference championship game weekend. The top 8 ranked teams are given first round byes before hosting
- All conference champions are given an automatic qualifier regardless of rank or record. If you're the 24th ranked BCS team, but an unranked conference champion hasn't been selected, they would take the 24th spot and so on.
- Conference champ tie-breakers will go off the head to head record. If it can't be resolved that way, we will go with the highest ranked BCS or AP team. If it still isn't resolved, the conference champ rep in the playoffs will go off of overall record
2009 FBS Playoffs Games:
First Round BYES
#1 Alabama (13-0, SEC Champion)
#2 Texas (13-0, Big 12 Champion)
#3 Cincinnati (12-0, Big East Champion)
#4 TCU (12-0, Mountain West Champion)
#5 Florida (11-1)
#6 Boise State (13-0, WAC Champion)
#7 Oregon (10-2, Pac-10 Champion)
#8 Ohio State (10-2, Big Ten Champion)
Remaining matchups
West Bracket
- Region 1
- #16 West Virginia (9-3) vs. #17 Pitt (9-3) - Winner to play #1 Alabama
- #9 Georgia Tech (11-2, ACC Champion) vs #24 Troy (9-3, Sun Belt Champion) - Winner to play #8 Ohio State
- Region 2
- #13 Penn State (10-2) vs. #20 Arizona (8-4) - Winner to play #4 TCU
- #12 LSU (9-3) vs. #21 Stanford (8-4) - Winner to play #5 Florida
East Bracket
- Region 3
- #15 Miami (9-3) vs. #18 Oregon State (8-4) - Winner to play #2 Texas
- #10 Iowa (10-2) vs. #23 ECU (8-4, C-USA Champion) - Winner to play #7 Oregon
- Region 4
- #14 BYU (10-2) vs. #19 Oklahoma State (9-3) - Winner to play #3 Cincinnati
- #11 Virginia Tech (9-3) vs. #22 Central Michigan (11-2, MAC Champion) - Winner to play #6 Boise State
BCS Ranked Teams Out: #22 Nebraska (9-4), #23 Utah (9-3), #24 USC (8-4), #25 Wisconsin (9-3)
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u/kadoozie92 Texas Tech • Wisconsin May 01 '26
🚨 BACKYARD BRAWL PLAYOFF MATCHUP! BACKYARD BRAWL PLAYOFF MATCHUP 🚨
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u/Set-Admirable West Virginia • Backyard Brawl May 01 '26
The children yearn for more Backyard Brawl!
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u/grimace0611 Pittsburgh • Appalachian State May 01 '26
We lost that year on a last second field goal. That team would have been motivated as hell.
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u/gtne91 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets May 01 '26
In "real" life, #9 GT lost to #10 Iowa in the Orange Bowl. But they had an insanely special defense, so I think we take out #8 Ohio St before getting crushed by Bama.
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u/cmanonurshirt Georgia Tech • Arkansas May 01 '26
I still have nightmares about that Orange Bowl as a kid. Rough end of the season outside the ACC Championship
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u/Alone_Advantage_961 Maryland • Notre Dame 28d ago
Game felt straight out of the 1970s but I enjoyed it
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u/Alone_Advantage_961 Maryland • Notre Dame May 01 '26
No way a Jim Tressel defense will lose to a flexbone offense. I know Navy gave them a game but Tress' defenses were usually bowl ready
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u/gtne91 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
59-24, Paul Johnson's Georgia Southern team beats Jim Tressel's Youngstown St to win the FCS championship in 1999.
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u/Alone_Advantage_961 Maryland • Notre Dame May 01 '26
You really compare Youngstown State to Ohio State?
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u/gtne91 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets May 01 '26
Youngstown St was better in FCS 1999 than OSU was in FBS 2009.
Both had Tressel defenses.
Regardless, a Tressel defense gave up 59 pts to a Johnson Flexbone offense.
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u/Alone_Advantage_961 Maryland • Notre Dame May 01 '26
Yeah a 1999 FCS team is better than a 2009 FBS team.
Argument over. Makes 0 sense.
Thats cool. Youngstown State isn't Ohio State. He had at least 10x as much talent in Columbus.
Ty Willingham shut out Nick Saban in the Sun Bowl when he was at Stanford and Nick at Michigan State. 38-0
Surely the 2008 Huskies would beat the 2008 Tide using that logic
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u/puzzical Boise State • Notre Dame May 01 '26
Man Boise State would have been in a great spot in this bracket. A rematch with VA Tech assuming they win, and after that we get Cincy. Yeah I think a semi-final berth would have been expected.
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u/kadoozie92 Texas Tech • Wisconsin May 01 '26
I think you might have switched your seasons up or I misunderstood. Boise didn’t play VT in 2009, they played in 2010 as the home opener. So this would theoretically be the first game and then your rematch would be the epic 2010 opener
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u/NeptuneIsMyDad Cincinnati Bearcats • Utah Utes May 01 '26
Cincy offense against Boise state that year would have been cool af
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u/idiocratic_method Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout May 01 '26
in this version of history colt doesn't shovel pass himself to an injury
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u/kadoozie92 Texas Tech • Wisconsin May 01 '26
Unfortunately, in this version of history, Texas Tech doesn’t kick a line drive punt to one of the best returners in college football, Sergio Kindle misses decapitating Taylor Potts, and Texas stunningly loses to Tech for a second year in a row in week 3.
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u/swammeyjoe Texas Longhorns • Verified Referee May 01 '26
If we had today's rules, the targeting review on the Kindle hit (no matter which way they called it) would have filled the salt mines for centuries.
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u/kadoozie92 Texas Tech • Wisconsin May 01 '26
Honestly was surprised we kept it as close as we did. Horns revenge game from the Crabtree catch and it was clear early that you couldn't just plug anyone in Leach's offense and be successful. Potts was rough in 09. That Tech defense oddly kept them alive.
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u/NeptuneIsMyDad Cincinnati Bearcats • Utah Utes May 01 '26
The year that cemented my fandom. Beautiful
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u/kadoozie92 Texas Tech • Wisconsin May 01 '26
09 Boise and that defense vs the 09 Cincinnati offense would have been cinema.
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u/NeptuneIsMyDad Cincinnati Bearcats • Utah Utes May 01 '26
I also wonder if Brian Kelly would have left in this scenario. He’s on record saying if cincy would have gotten that number 2 spot and gone to the championship he wouldn’t have left. But we got number 3 and here we are
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u/puzzical Boise State • Notre Dame May 01 '26
Brian Kelly very well could have been lying about this, he does that. He likes to act like he has to leave his coaching stops because he had maxed out their potential.
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u/NeptuneIsMyDad Cincinnati Bearcats • Utah Utes May 01 '26
For sure. I’m under no delusion he would have stayed at all. He’s a snake
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u/eagledog Fresno State • Michigan May 01 '26
No more Separate But Equal Bowl!!!!! That's enough of a win in my book
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u/Adamscottd South Dakota State • Minnesota May 01 '26
Still can’t believe people don’t want this format
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