8 Team Playoff

Submitted by HelloHeisman91 on
Does anyone else wish that the 4 team playoff next year was scrapped for an 8 team playoff? I wish it started this year. 1. FSU 2. Auburn 3. Bama 4. MSU 5. Baylor 6. Stanford 7. OSU 8. ?
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bronxblue

December 8th, 2013 at 9:52 AM ^

I'd like an 8-team playoff and just remove one regular-season game; financially I'm guessing certain conferences would complain but for competitiveness it wouldn't disrupt all but the top couple of teams.

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chatster

December 8th, 2013 at 10:06 AM ^

20-Team Tournament
 
Reduce the regular season to eleven games, as in FCS.  End the regular season before Thanksgiving.  Eliminate conference championship games.
 
Include 20 teams that will be given at least 15 post-season practices to use as they see fit. Teams included and advancing in the tournament are given extra practice time.
 
Top 12 Consensus (whether by BCS or some other system) automatically qualify.  Each team qualifying for tournament guaranteed at least two extra games.  Only two teams will play as many as five extra games.
 
Top-ranked teams from ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, PAC 12 and SEC conferences automatically qualify.  Other teams chosen by selection committee.  Seeding for teams 13 through 20 done by selection committee.
 
Total of 19 Games (twelve at campus sites for higher seeded teams; seven at major sites; last three games in domes)
 
Example for 2013 Tournament
 
Week One - Four Games - November 30: 13-20; 14-19; 15-18; 16-17 (Saturday Games; Higher Seed’s Home)
 
Week Two - Eight Games - December 6-7: 1-lowest seed; 2-2nd lowest seed; 3-3rd lowest seed; 4-4th lowest seed; 5-12; 6-11; 7-10; 8-9 (Friday and Saturday games; Higher Seed’s Home)
 
Week Three - Four Games - December 14: Eight week two winners; 1-8; 2-7; 3-6; 4-5 (Saturday games) - Rotate sites; for example, use Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, St.  Louis
 
Week Four - Two Games - December 28: Four week three winners; 1-4; 2-3 (Saturday games) - Rotate sites and try to use domed stadiums to avoid bad weather outdoors, for example Atlanta, Glendale AZ
 
Week Five - One Game - January 18 - Championship - Dallas
 
Bowl Games
 
December 12-21 - Fifteen Bowl Games (30 non-tournament teams that will include each service academy team with a winning record if that team is not in the tournament or selected for one of the later bowl games) - Rotate bowls; teams picked by selection committee
 
December 26-January 4 - Fifteen Bowl Games (Four Week One Losers; Week Two Losers that didn’t play in Week One, plus up to 22 non-tournament teams) - Include Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Capital One, Outback and Fiesta - Rotate the other bowls; non-tournament teams picked by selection committee
 
Consolation Games
 
Because the tournament and bowl games would be limited to no more than 72 teams, the remaining Division One teams could opt to schedule an extra game amongst themselves at campus sites or neutral sites, if they wished, between the start of the tournament and the start of the other bowl games.   Gives other Division One  teams the chance to get a 12th game, so they won’t suffer lost revenue.  Each of those teams can have up to ten additional practices to use as they see fit, so that teams that don’t play a 12th game still can have extra practices.  As examples for 2013, Indiana could play Northwestern (Big Ten teams that didn’t meet during the regular season), Akron could play Central Michigan (MAC teams that didn’t meet during the regular season) and Air Force could play Hawaii (Mountain West teams that didn’t meet during the regular season.)

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Mr. Yost

December 8th, 2013 at 10:19 AM ^

In fact, here's what I'd like to do.

70-Team Division 1

(7) 10-Team Conferences (East, West, North, South, Southeast, Midwest, Mideast)

9-game Conference schedule, 3 Non-Conference games, 0 Conference Championship games.

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8-Team Playoff

7 Conference Winner + 1 At-Large Team

Use BCS to seed the 8 Playoff Teams

Quarterfinals at home site of higher ranked teams

Semifinals at one stadium (with field turf) on one day (Cotton & Chick-Fil-A get to rotate)

Finals at "BCS" Stadium (Rose/Sugar/Fiesta/Orange get to rotate)

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Everyone that doesn't make a playoff, goes to a bowl (currently there are 35 bowls, and 70 teams...so you're not changing anything).

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Mr. Yost

December 8th, 2013 at 10:31 AM ^

East

Southeast

South

West

Midwest

Mideast

North

North Carolina

Alabama

Texas A&M

Stanford

Nebraska

Tennessee

Michigan

Boston College

South Carolina

LSU

Oregon

Missouri

Vanderbilt

Ohio State

Duke

Georgia

Oklahoma

UCLA

Iowa

Kentucky

Notre Dame

Maryland

Auburn

Arkansas

USC

Colorado

Louisville

Northwestern

NC State

Florida

Texas

Washington

Utah

Virginia Tech

Wisconsin

Rutgers

Florida State

Oklahoma State

Oregon State

Iowa State

Cincinnati

Michigan State

Syracuse

Miami

Texas Tech

Fresno State

Kansas State

West Virginia

Purdue

UVA

UCF

Baylor

Cal

Arizona State

Illinois

Illinois

Wake Forest

Georgia Tech

TCU

Washington State

Arizona

Northern Illinois

Penn State

ECU

USF

Mississippi State

Boise State

Kansas

Indiana

Pittsburgh

Temple/UConn

Clemson

Ole Miss

San Diego State

BYU

Marshall

Minnesota

Had to go 77 teams, but I figured I still probably left some obvious team out.

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chatster

December 8th, 2013 at 11:10 AM ^

Besides getting blowback from giving SMU another “Death Penalty,” the Temple/UConn loser, Army, Navy, Air Force, the Ghost of Elvis (Memphis), the Ghost of ENRON (Houston), Rice (2013 Conference USA Champion), Bowling Green (2013 MAC Champion), the Las Vegas Tourism Bureau (UNLV) and Silicon Valley (San Jose State) might complain about that proposal; but it’s an interesting concept.  

Maybe expand to 88 teams, call it the Piano Division and have "Piano Man" Billy Joel kick off each season with a concert at the site of the stadium that would host the championship game.  (Of course, then David Letterman and Brady Hoke will be angry about leaving Ball State out of the mix.)

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cbs650

December 8th, 2013 at 10:34 AM ^

Had ND been a full fledge Big Ten member last year and went undefeated, they wouldn't have played in the title and that's why they chose to stay quasi independent while playing a quasi ACC schedule.

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beevo

December 8th, 2013 at 10:52 AM ^

My dream scenario:

16 teams seeded on the final Sunday after the conference championships by the "BCS" committee.  

1st round: Played at higher seeded location

Round of 8: Played at higher seeded location or at "Second Tier bowls" (Capital, etc).

Semi-Finals (4): Rotated between Orange, Rose, Fiesta, Sugar

Championship: Rotated between Orange, Rose, Fiesta, Sugar

Major Conferences get automatic bid: (B1G, SEC, PAC, Big XII, ACC, American, Big East, Mountain West) leaves 8 bids for at large.

Regular season can be no more than 11 games.

Rivalary week always scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend, following week is conference championships.  First round is the next week.  The only off week is between the Semi and Championship game which would place the game around the first week of January.  The National Champion would play 16 games (unless an Independent which could play 15).

 

Everybody's Happy and we have a college football playoff that would rival March Madness.  How about December Delirium?

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umbig11

December 8th, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^

The big 5 conference winners and 3 at-large teams. A 16 team playoff is too big unless you play the first round on campus then use the bowl systems after that.

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JayMo4

December 8th, 2013 at 1:06 PM ^

They'll never do this (although it's far more realistic than the people talking about eliminating the current conferences - that's where all the money is!  Not gonna happen,) but here is the optimal playoff model, in my opinion:

 

Six teams.  Top two teams get a BYE.  Reseeding after the first round so the #1 seed faces the lowest ranked winner from the first round.  First round and semi-finals both played on home fields of higher ranked teams.  Championship game at a rotating neutral site that ideally would be played in a different region, midwest INCLUDED for sake of fairness, every season.

 

Why this format?  We get three solid weeks of exciting playoff games, but you still have to have a great season to get in and there is a healthy reward and advantage to the higher ranked teams.  Under this format, the two highest ranked teams will win most of the time given their home field advantage, with the lower seeds pulling upsets primarily in seasons where one of the higher rated teams took advantage of a soft schedule.  So you'll get enough upsets to be exciting, but not so many as to render the regular season less meaningful.

So now you have a system that is set up to give us the best title game possible and weed out pretenders.   It is more fair and more considerate of preserving the importance of the season than the 4-team, neutral site system we have next year, given the seeding and HFA set-up.  Oh, and the atmosphere at those first round and semifinal games is going to be RIDICULOUS.  You want to see true college football pageantry?  This is the only postseason system built to maximize it.

 

Now if only college football would come to its senses and do it.  We're almost certainly headed for an eight team, all bowl sites set-up.  Such a shame when the obviously superior next step is sitting right here in this post!

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bigfan2959

December 8th, 2013 at 5:16 PM ^

I completely agree.  A four team playoff is not enough.  Until you at least get the big 5 conference champions an automatic berth, then the supposed national championship is not legitimate in my opinion.  At least with an automatic berth for all 5 BSC conference champions, every team has a realistic shot of getting, though it should really still be calld the BCS national championship as it would exclude the other conference champions. I think such as senario would also lead to better out of conference schedules, as teams would be at least more inclined to use the non-conference as a chance to prepare for the conference, like Bo used to when the Rose Bowl was the only goal.  

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