No CCGs. Assuming only 1 mid-major (G5):
Top 8 Seeds (Byes):
1 Notre Dame (8-0)
2 TCU (10-0)
3 Duke (9-0)
4 Tennessee (9-0)
5 Oklahoma (9-0)
6 Carnegie Mellon (7-1)
7 Pitt (8-2)
8 USC (7-2)
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1st Round
17 Alabama 7-1-1 @
16 Michigan 6-1-1.............winner @ 1 ND
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24 Miami 8-2 @
9 Holy Cross 8-1.................winner @ 8 USC
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20 Dartmouth 7-2 @
13 Fordham 6-1-2.........winner @ 4 Tennessee
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21 Santa Clara 6-2 @
12 California 9-1................winner @ 5 Oklahoma
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22 Georgetown 8-0 @
11 Cornell 5-1-1..........winner @ 6 Carnegie Mellon
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19 Northwestern 4-2-2 @
14 Texas Tech 10-0.........winner @ 3 Duke
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23 Clemson 7-1-1 @
10 Minnesota 6-2..............winner @ 7 Pitt
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18 Tulane 7-2-1 @
15 Villanova 8-0-1..............winner @ 2 TCU
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Boy, these are some tough roads to hoe, with the teams travelling by train and all. Alabama, Miami, and Clemson going up north in December. If the Canes won, they'd get a slow, long trip to LA as a reward.
TCU was the eventual NC in real life, after a season-ending loss to the Trojans by the Irish.
Carnegie Mellon and Pitt could have a neighborhood brawl in the semis.
