Saturday, August 6, 2011

Simulation Football League Final Standings

The historic Simulation Football League regular season is history.  WhatIf Sports allows you to match up teams from different years or different eras.  Unfortunately, the college football section only allows you to go back to 1996 but it suits this purpose.

The object was to look at the last 10 years and determine two things:  1)  How good, really, is Boise State and 2)  Who is the best college football team in the last 10 years?  There have been several interesting results along the way.  Several Boise State teams that you wouldn't think of have defeated the so-called "national champions", many in the same year that that "national champion" was annointed.  

In this format set up by WhatIf Sports, the 10 Bronco teams are in the Boise State Division while the 10 "national championship" teams are in the Championship Division.  The schedule corresponded to a regular season in college football, with nine games against teams in your division and three games at random against teams from the other division.    At the conclusion of next week's games, the top two teams in each division will enter the SFL Playoffs.

The playoffs are set.  The 2009 Broncos, champions of the Boise State Division, will play USC, which clinched the #2 seed in the Championship Division with a victory over LSU this afternoon.  Meanwhile, Miami of Florida, which lost its only game of the season today to Alabama, will face the 2010 Boise State team.

Here are the Final regular season Standings:

Boise State Division
1.    2009 Boise State 11-1 (537 points, 336 allowed)
2.    2010 Boise State 9-3 (482-300)
3.    2006 Boise State 7-5 (377-349)
4.    2002 Boise State 6-6 (421-398)
4.    2003 Boise State 5-7 (347-438)
4.    2008 Boise State 5-7 (348-416)
7.    2004 Boise State 5-7 (344-396)
7.    2007 Boise State 4-8 (337-397)
7.    2001 Boise State 3-9 (290-409)
10.  2005 Boise State 2-10 (239-448)

Championship Division
1.    2001 Miami of Florida 11-1 (536-205)
2.    2004 USC 9-3* (510-288)
2.    2005 Texas 9-3 (374-273)
4.    2009 Alabama 8-4 (307-186)
5.    2008 Florida 7-5 (388-446)
6.    2006 Florida 6-6 (262-290)
7.    2003 LSU 4-8 (257-324)
7.    2007 LSU 4-8 (233-336)
9.    2002 Ohio State 3-9 (225-321)
10.  2010 Auburn 2-10 (226-374)  


*--clinches playoff berth due to head-to-head victory over Texas.

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