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.
December 8th, 2013 at 10:06 AM ^
December 8th, 2013 at 10:27 AM ^
December 8th, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^
I think an 8-team playoff with the Big conference champions (5) plus maybe the (2) best non-AQ champions and an 8th at-large spot
December 8th, 2013 at 1:10 PM ^
Switch it to the (1) best non-AQ champion and (2) at-larges, and you've got a deal.
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).
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.
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.)
December 8th, 2013 at 10:34 AM ^
December 8th, 2013 at 10:34 AM ^
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?
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.
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!
December 8th, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^
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.