Conference Realignment - Power Five 16 team playoff
You could have three divisions in the WEST:
1. USC
2. UCLA
3. Stanford
4. Cal
5. Oregon
6. Oregon State
7. Washington
8. Washington State
9. Utah
10. BYU
11. Colorado
1. Texas
2. Texas A&M
3. Oklahoma
4. Oklahoma State
5. Arkansas
6. TCU
7. Texas Tech
8. Baylor
9. Arizona
10. Arizona State
11. Nebraska
1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. Michigan State
4. Purdue
5. Iowa State
6. Indiana
7. Illinois
8. Northwestern
9. Iowa
10. Wisconsin
11. Minnesota
And three divisions in the EAST
1. Alabama
2. Auburn
3. LSU
4. Ole Miss
5. Miss State
6. South Carolina
7. Tennessee
8. Missouri
9. Kansas
10. Kansas State
11. Clemson
1. Florida
2. Florida State
3. Miami
4. Georgia
5. Georgia Tech
6. Virginia
7. Virginia Tech
8. North Carolina
9. North Carolina State
10. Duke
11. Wake Forest
1. Notre Dame
2. Penn State
3. Pitt
4. West Virginia
5. Boston College
6. Louisville
7. Kentucky
8. Vanderbilt
9. Maryland
10. Syracuse
11. Rutgers
Two teams from each of the six divisions qualify for the 16-team playoff as well as four wildcard teams – two wildcards from the West and two from the East. Everyone's bottom line increases. Fans will eat it up so much they won't mind absorbing the increased costs for a College Football Channel as well as a DIRECTV type college football package or other games on pay-per-view.
http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story/1561434-the-next-big-move-in-realignment
What say you?
I'm not a big fan of this. It would basically eliminate conferences (history/tradition) and make college football NFL-lite.
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Unless you require it.
5 conference champion autobids, 2 P5 at large, 1 non-P5 at large.
If you're worried about the 1 non-P5 at large make it a condition they must be ranked in the top 20 or something.
5 major conferences with auto bids for their conference champions. 3 wildcard spots. The 5 conferences can have up to 16 teams with two divisions of 8. The auto bid conferences: B1G PAC, Big 12, SEC, ACC.
This way if Michigan wins 10 or 11 games but just misses winning the B1G east division, we could still get into the playoffs!
Way too many teams....where are these games going to be played in December when the NFL is playing Saturday games, to say nothing of the dilution of in-conference play, logistics, final exams for hundreds of students for each univesity, etc. etc.
Less is more.
They'll play through December and NFL doesn't play Saturday game until the playoff starts in January
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I thought I wanted a 16 team playoff, but really the conference championship games function as a tournament game as well.
Ugh, no please. Lets not turn college football into the NFL. This looks like a huge money grab. 16 teams in a playoff is too much, it would really dilute the product.
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Crappy conference champions don't deserve a playoff spot. Would 8 win 2012 Wisconsin deserve a spot? Keep it at 4 or maybe 6 teams at most. 8 teams waters down the regular season and 16 teams ruins it. If you don't show up during the regular season, you don't deserve a shot at the title.
Also, those divisions suck.
Chip Brown (Texas propaganda shill) was proven to be an idiot five years ago during the last round of conference realignment.
Are we in year 2 of the playoff and people are already trying to blow this thing up? I think it worked out well last year (other than Ohio State winning the national championship.) Let's keep things the way they are for at least three more years and then make a determination.
I'd somewhat like the idea of playing everyone in our division a couple of times before we go blowing up divisions, conferences, and the playoff landscape. Four teams are more than enough at current moment. I wish they would make the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl the playoff game every year, but I can deal with the current format.
A 16 team playoff field means teams with 3 losses would be playing. The regular season should be about eliminating teams with more than 1 loss. You can't compare this to the NCAA basketball tourney or D2 football. We love it for a reason...every game all season counts! Leave it at 4.