NCAA Layout
Say Div I-A was starting completely from scratch in the way that they handled scheduling and post-season play. How would you like to see it handled? 6 BCS conferences? 2 National conferences with 4 subdivisions like in NFL? Polls? No Polls? Bowl Games? Playoff? Number of games in a season? Number of in conference games (assuming that you want conferences)? Would you keep everything how it is? etc.
My preference would be:
12 conferences, 10 teams per conference
Weeks 1-8
8 in conference games, used for dynamic scheduling
Week 9
Bye Week
Week 10
OOC game, each team in a conference plays against a different confernce so that there cannot be two games between the same two conferences.
Week 11
Rank teams in each conference by most wins, who beat whom. Teams ranked 1 and 2 in each conference play each other. Same for 3 and 4, 5 and 6, etc. If there is an odd number of teams, the last team is left out.
Week 12
Repeat week 10.
Week 13
Repeat week 12 with new results.
Week 14
Bottom 8 conference champs play each other in wild cards. Higher ranked team gets home field. This is all determined by the 2 OOC games, which will give a strength of schedule/conference.
Week 15
Bye Week
Weeks 16-18
8 team play off
8 regularly scheduled games conference games
2 OOC games
2 weeks for dynamic conference games
4 weeks for national playoffs
2 bye weeks
Equates to 18 weeks, 12-16 games per team
Weeks 11 and 13 sort out 3-way ties
Weeks 10 and 12 are tie-breakers for seeding in playoffs
What would you guys like to see?
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 PM ^
I think I lost you back at "starting from scratch"
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 PM ^
Whatever ameed, we could totally start from scratch. All we need are those little mind eraser things from Men in Black.
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 PM ^
It's a hypothetical. If college football had not been played yet and we were setting up the system, how would you want it setup?
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 PM ^
There was a similar thread a while back (can't remember if it was BCook or a poster) that called for the European Soccer/Futbol style system:
6 Conferences with a Champions and Lower Division, 10 teams in each (6*2*10=120). They used the example of pairing BCS and Mid Majors to create your conferences (with teams moving back and forth based on the onfield results).
In this "what if" world, I thought that was clever, as you could play Round-Robin for each conference championship, feature some out of conference games and then use Brian's 6 team playoff scheme with the Champions league winners.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 PM ^
There are 10 conferences with 12 teams per conference
Weeks 1-6:
6 weeks of out-of-conference play
In-Conference Tournaments: Weeks 7-9
Teams are seeded in-conference based on there records through the first 6 weeks.
Seeds 9-12 are placed in a losers bracket (no shot at bcs bowl games).
Seeds 1-8 play are placed in the winners brackets and are dropped into consulation games after one loss in the tourney:
Week 7:
1 seed plays 8, 2 plays 7, 3 plays 6, 4 plays 5
Week 8:
1 plays 4, 2 plays 3
Week 9:
1 plays 2
BCS Tournament: Weeks 10-14
The 10 teams that win their conference tournaments are ranked based on the total out-of-conference wins by all of the teams within their conference)
Week 10:
Seed 7 vs 10, 8 vs 9. Seeds 1-6 get byes
Week 11:
1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5
Week 12:
1 vs 4, 2 vs 3
Week 13:
Bye Week
Week 14:
National Championship
1 vs 2
Other BCS bowls can be the consulation games for the teams eliminated from the final BCS bracket of 10.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 PM ^
I like it. In your scenario, you could have the BCS bowls be Week 13 and if we were to stretch it a little more, we could still have them on New Year's day.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 PM ^
Comments:
1) Why only 8 games in conference? Then you still have the possibility of 2 teams in the same conference running the table and not having a true champion from that conference. Eliminating the bye week (or at least pushing it back) would fix this problem.
2) Just pointing out something, but you said 10 teams per conference but then mention odd numbers of teams in week 11?
3) You don't explain week 11 well. It sounds as if its a "conference championship week" instead of (what I think you're calling) an OOC game. I really don't understand this week at all.
You now what, this makes no sense to me at all. Please rehash this. Or better yet, don't. I don't see any variation of what I think I'm understanding from this to ever come to fruition.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 PM ^
8 pre-scheduled games, 2 dynamically scheduled games, 10 conference games total. If there are two undefeated teams that haven't play each other, they will and possibly twice.
There are actually 119 I-A teams so it is hard to come up with a perfect number. If we go up to 121 teams then we have one conference with 11 teams. It is just because the system can't stay at 120 teams forever.
Look at the big 10 standings. This would be the schedule for week 11:
OSU @ PSU
NW @ MSU
Wisconsin @ Iowa
Illinois @ Minnesota
Michigan @ Purdue
Inidana has a Bye
Big 12 would be like this:
Texas @ Oklahoma
OSU @ TT
Nebraska @ Missouri
Colorado @ Kansas
Baylor @ KSU
ISU @ Texas A&M
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 PM ^
If you would have read week 10 ud understand. seeds 1-6 get byes. meanwhile seed 7 plays 10 and 8 plays 9, in order to eliminate 2 teams and have an 8 team bracket. that gives a pretty big advantage to the teams that faced harder competition in their in-conference brackets.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 PM ^
He wasn't responding to you.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 PM ^
aright u obviously didnt read carefully so...weeks 10 - 14 is a new bracket (BCS Tourney) made up of the winners from the in-conference tournaments that took place during weeks 7-9.