If conference champions hadn’t been seeded 1-4, Texas and Ohio State and Notre Dame and Penn State would have likely played this past round assuming no major first-round upsets.
Texas would have been the 3 seed and OSU the 6 seed and Penn State the 4 and Notre Dame the 5.
Texas would have been the 3 seed and OSU the 6 seed and Penn State the 4 and Notre Dame the 5.