ESPN: Big Ten Considering a 4-Team Playoff

I really don't think we should be discussing such things. I just hope our team can triumph once next season.

YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS!??

How in the hell is this redundant!?! Please, go find another southerner prepared to say what I just did.

TBH I could care less if people travel to an away playoff game in B1G country because I know the students and alumni will pack the house.  Which makes home field much more of an advantage.  I don't think the B1G is talking about Lambeau or Lucas as much as they are talking about the Big House and the Shoe.    Its the way it should be, and it takes power and money out of the fraudulent BCS system.

You aren't part of some brilliant, diabolical, Saban-hatched plan to win over the hearts and minds of other fanbases, are you?

"but who really wants to go to Indianapolis?"

Maybe it's from coming up in Flint and living throughout the Detroit/Toledo/Sandusky/Cleveland area....

But I fell in love with Indy. If I were ever to move back to the city, Indy would be high on list.

...there will never be a "fair" playoff system.  Conferences each have different rules, different schedules, different revenues all of which make access to the whatever playoff inherently unbalanced.

The first step to a true "national" champion would be to eliminate regional conferences and have uniformly enforce rules and balanced schedules across the board.

Frankly, the bowls are a better system for college football because they embrace the spectacle of non-uniformity rather than suppress it.

Well considering they have a membership deal witht he BCS they're included in every potential setup

The NC game can be played there, but the Rose Bowl should still exist as a matchup of the best-eligible B1G and Pac-12 teams.  No way Delaney gives that up.  I wouldn't want to, either.  As far as the NC game being played there, I don't know if I even like that.  So whenever USC makes it to the title game, they get homefield advantage?  I think Delaney is right to suggest that the NC game be moved around like the Superbowl.

If you limit the # of teams that get in to 4 or 6 it is not meaningless. Especially if teams get homefield advantage in the 1st/2nd rounds with the Championship at a neutral site.

Edit: Also, no auto-bids. That is how shitty teams like the Giants (football) or Cardinals (baseball) are able to win championships simply by winning their crappy diviision and getting hot at the end of the season.

I think most people would agree that college football has one of the most meaningful regular seasons, I think they would also agree there is still room for improvement.  I think most look at this years LSU-Alabama debacle/games/awesomeness/etc. as the reason why we should also be looking to improve the situation. (the WSJ article didn't mention anything about this)

Under the current system 10-1 OSU was relagated to the Fiesta Bowl because their loss was "worse" than Alabama's loss despite the fact that OSU's wins were better than Alabama's wins.  

I didn't watch the MNC game nor the Fiesta Bowl because I didn't care about either; a result of the current system.  I would have watched both semi-finals and a championship game if the proposed system would have been in place.  This is obviously anecdotal, but I'm guessing there are a lot more people like me out there.

Dr. Saturday lays out a solid response to your argument:

"In the first place, it would be impossible for the college football equivalent of a 9-7 NFL team to make the cut in any logistically feasible bracket, even one as large as 16 teams. Compare to the NFL, where more than a third of the league qualifies for the playoffs every year (a much lower number than in the NBA and NHL, which admit a majority), an eight-team playoff in college football would only include 6.5 percent of current FBS programs (8 of 123), the cream of the crop by any standard; a 12-team playoff would include 9.8 percent, still restricting the field to the elite. My pet plan favors a 10-team setup, but the specific number is frankly semantic: A field that included the college football equivalent of a 9-7 NFL team would have to consist of at least 46 teams, a logistical impossibility. And because it would be exceedingly difficult for any college team to make an 8, 10, 12 or 16-team field with more than two losses — or even with only two losses, in an 8 or 10-team field — the gap between the top of the bracket and the bottom would be a) Negligible, and b) Easily closed if the team on the bottom actually won the tournament."

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