https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/39686587/how-playoff-decided-college-football-national-champs-1966For each season starting with 1966, I'm going to simulate an eight-team playoff using historic SP+ rankings. Instead of just picking the favorite to win each game, I'm going to go full ESPN Analytics style and pick a random simulation from 10,000 to determine what would have happened in a given playoff
1995: No. 1 Nebraska over No. 10 Kansas State.
1997: Semifinals: No. 9 Ohio State over No. 5 UCLA, No. 3 Tennessee over No. 10 Kansas State.
Finals: No. 3 Tennessee over No. 9 Ohio State.
1998: No. 3 Ohio State over No. 4 Kansas State. Three-time champion John Cooper, two-time runner-up LHC Bill Snyder.
1999: No. 6 Kansas State over No. 1 Florida State. Snyder gets his title.
2000: No. 1 Oklahoma over No. 3 Miami.
2001: No. 1 Miami over No. 2 Nebraska.
2002: No. 8 Kansas State over No. 3 Georgia! The random number generator evidently loves LHC Bill Snyder.