Week 1 conference standings and playoff bracket

You have to laugh at all the attention given to the new college football playoff selection committee. One talking head on TV after another acts like this is some impossible job these people have been charged with.

The committee has hired an analytics firm to compile a data platform to assist in the rankings, which will be released to the public each week starting at the end of October.

The rankings are going to end up being very similar to the BCS formula with a mix of computers and individual vote by these people who really have no more validity than the average group of college football aficionados.

So once the rankings are released to the public, what is the committee going to do, pick Nos. 1, 3, 7, and 8 instead? The NCAA basketball tournament committee has the much more difficult job.

There is a much better way, football people, but first you have to bust up the conferences like this...

Teams in red have qualified for the 16-team postseason playoff seeded below the standings. Teams in blue have qualified as the worst two teams in Division 1 and must play to see who is sent down to Division 2 for the following season. Teams are ranked in each division using the brilliant Massey comparison rankings.

Southeast
1-0  Florida State
1-0  Auburn
1-0  Georgia 
0-1  Clemson
0-1  Central Florida
0-0  Florida
0-1  Miami
1-0  Georgia Tech
1-0  South Florida

Southwest
1-0  Baylor
1-0  Oklahoma
1-0  Texas A&M
0-1  Oklahoma State
1-0  Texas
1-0  Texas Tech
1-0  TCU
1-0  Texas-San Antonio
1-0  UTEP

Mid-South
1-0  Alabama
1-0  LSU
1-0  Louisville
1-0  Ole Miss
1-0  Mississippi State
1-0  Tennessee
0-1  Vanderbilt
1-0  Kentucky
1-0  Memphis

West
1-0  Stanford
1-0  USC
1-0  UCLA
1-0  Arizona State
1-0  Arizona
0-1  Fresno State
1-0  San Diego State
1-0  California
0-1  Hawaii

Great Lakes
1-0  Michigan State
1-0  Ohio State
1-0  Notre Dame
1-0  Michigan
0-0  Cincinnati
1-0  Indiana
0-1  Northwestern
1-0  Illinois
1-0  Purdue

Northwest
1-0  Oregon 
1-0  Washington
1-0  BYU
1-0  Oregon State
1-0  Utah
0-1  Boise State
0-1  Washington State
0-1  Colorado
1-0  Air Force

Atlantic
0-1  South Carolina
1-0  North Carolina
1-0  Virginia Tech
1-0  Duke
1-0  East Carolina
1-0  Maryland
0-1  Virginia
1-0  North Carolina State
0-1  Wake Forest

Midwest
1-0  Missouri
0-1  Wisconsin
1-0  Nebraska
1-0  Kansas State
1-0  Iowa
1-0  Minnesota
0-1  Arkansas
0-1  Iowa State
0-0  Kansas

Northeast
1-0  Penn State
1-0  Pittsburgh
0-1  Navy
1-0  Syracuse
1-0  Rutgers
1-0  Boston College
0-1  West Virginia
0-1  Connecticut
0-0  Army

College football playoff projections...
1 Florida State vs. 16 Penn State
2 Oregon vs. 15 South Carolina
3 Alabama vs. 14 Missouri
4 Auburn vs. 13 LSU
5 Stanford vs. 12 Georgia
6 Michigan State vs. 11 USC
7 Baylor vs. 10 Texas A&M
8 Ohio State vs. 9 Oklahoma

Relegation playoff to be sent down to Division 2
UTEP vs. Army