From our best guess to how the playoff will unfold to borderline absurd brackets, here is how the season could unfold under very different circumstances.

Who will make the College Football Playoff bracket this winter? Bruce Feldman runs through his 12 teams and each round to crown a champion.

While the Big Ten seeks to find as many ways as it can to sabotage the playoff system, we are keeping our focus on the 12-team field to be assembled in December.