BCS eliminates 8 & 16 team proposals, recommends 4-team playoff without AQ conferences.
fwiw, most reports indicate that they're probably going to move to a selection committee
That's really just a poll of fewer people... but if the proposed committee takes it's job seriously, they'll certainly do better than coaches or media members who watch very few games on a weekly basis.
of the limit of six home games, I think your plan has fundamental flaws. Teams are limited to one non-conference game against teams from the lower half of conferences How do you determine which conferences are in the lower half? How could teams from those conferences ever schedule enough non-conference opponents from the better conferences? And if they could, they might qualify by playing 11 games vs lower-half teams. Why would anyone trying to make the playoffs ever schedule Alabama, USC, etc., when playing Vandy or Indiana serve the same purpose? With something like the current system that takes strength of schedule into account, schools will.
It's very difficult to eliminate problems without introducing new ones. The trick is to make any new problems smaller than the old ones.
April 26th, 2012 at 10:05 PM ^
How could you have a flexible number of playoff teams? That'd be a logistical nighmare. The NCAA can't just decide in like October, "OK, six playoff teams this year." The sites and arrangements have to be planned well in advance.
Imagine 100,000 people coming to Ann Arbor in one day! And then trying to fit all those people in the stadium! I just don't see it happening
April 26th, 2012 at 10:02 PM ^
But think how loud they'd be.
Don't worry. It will last only as long as the public doesn't tune it out. In the short-term It expands their TV dollars in a big way. But will it be enough when they'll discover the same issues of half-empty bowl sites, bowl's ripping off schools, and the existence of way more dollars hanging out there in exchange for further expansion?
Obviously this opens up more money without doing much to open up the system beyond the dominance of 3 or 4 conferences. Believe me the cartel is only doing this much because they have to.
Remember, they fought a 1 v. 2 set up for decades in favor of the old bowl system. When money dictates expansion to something more like a real tournament, it will happen.
whine for years about lack of a playoff
get playoff
whine about playoff
AIN'T THAT AMERICA
How do you figure? There's no way Arkansas would have been the #4 team in any scenario. They were #6 in the final BCS standings, with a very significant gap between them and the teams above them.
April 26th, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
"Hancock said another proposal eliminated was the idea of having three semifinal games if the champions of the Big Ten or Pac-12 were among the four teams competing in the playoffs.
Under that proposal -- which never seemed to carry much weight with many commissioners -- the Big Ten and/or Pac-12 team would have played in the Rose Bowl -- with four other teams competing in the national semifinals -- and then two winning teams would have been selected to play in a championship game."
Delany almost screwed it up!
Ive been waiting for a playoff for a long time. Glad to see something is finally getting done.
I dont understand why they dont just make the playoff games the bowls. select from the top 5 with whatever method allows 4 sec teams (jajaja) make those two and the nc rotate through the old bcs games. you dont lose bowls, you gain a playoff.
regardless, good to see.
that's what it looks like will happen... more explicitly, the two semifinals will be bowls. So, let's say our top 4 are Michigan, Texas, Alabama and USC... Michigan plays USC in the Rose Bowl, which is semifinal #1, and Texas plays Alabama in the Sugar Bowl in semifinal #2. Also, presumably, this would be an alternating system so that the next year the national semis would be the Orange and Fiesta Bowls. In years when they're not semifinals, these bowls would presumably have conference tie ins and take the top non-playoff teams. And the rest of the bowl system, of course, is kept in tact.
and I'll show you the way it's flawed, so for those who believe argument is good for or because of the current system, no matter what you do there will be alot of talk about how it's flawed. So yeah here we go with " I think the fifth team got jobbed" arguments.
Honestly, I knew this would happen all along. Every discussion of how we needed a playoff was invaribly tied to the person initiating it's personal playoff proposal. People got really attached not to playoffs as an ideal, but to their own ideas of what a playoff should be... everyone was just hoping that one day the powers that be would see the light and pick Brian's proposal or Obama's proposal or Hinton's proposal or your own proposal, totally unconcenered about what might happen if another system was picked.
So here we are, on the precipice of getting what we've all claimed to want for so long and all anyone can think to do is complain because "WHAT ABOUT HOME GAMES FOR THE TOP SEEDS" or "WHAT ABOUT THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE ROSE BOWL" or "WHAT ABOUT NEEDING 16 SEEDS" and so on.