The 1-AA (FCS, whatever) 16-team playoffs wrap up this weekend in Chattanooga when #4 Montana meets #7 Richmond in the championship game. Of course both had to knock off higher seeds in order to get to the title game, and that includes Richmond’s upset of three-time defending champion Appalachian State.

If the #4 and #7 teams met at the end of a BCS playoff, we’d have Alabama playing Texas Tech. That’s not bad, actually, and it was a realistic possibility just a few weeks ago.