OT: Simple Theoretical CFP System
With Michigan finally involved in all the playoff scenarios and hypotheticals starting to pop up this year, I got to thinking about a possible format to eliminate the guesswork and subjectivity. I know the bickering and rankings is something some people love about the college game, but this makes a lot more sense to me.
- Six team tourney.
- Each Power Five Conference Champion gets an automatic bid
- One Wild Card/At Large bid selected by the Committee.
- Seeds 1 and 2 get first round byes, 3 plays 6, 4 plays 5.
It eliminates most of the subjective elements in the current system and values Conference Championships. Teams would still be compelled to schedule tough non-conference opponents for sake of seeding/byes and you could even add a home field advantage to the higher seeds if teams needed more incentive for the non-conference schedule.
Is it too simple to be interesting? Do teams that don't win their conference deserve a shot at the National Title? Too similar to the pros?
November 8th, 2018 at 10:16 AM ^
Your system has byes AND an odd number of teams?!
We've got a winner for "Worst Fucking Idea of the Night" yall.
November 8th, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
I have to agree with you Doctor!
November 8th, 2018 at 8:34 AM ^
My proposal:
*Go to an 8 team playoff.
*5 Confernece Champions 3 At-large
*Make the first round during the Conference Championship weekend. The Conference Championship game in a lot of cases is a meaningless extra game against a weaker opponent from the other side of the conference anyways. If there is some sort of a tie in the conference without a confernece championship game. The ties can be broken from head to head or some other form of a tie breaker.
The potential meaningless extra Championship games this year
Michigan vs Northwestern (again)
Clemson vs ___________
Texas vs Oklahoma (again)
*Replace these extra meanigless Conference Championship games with 4 first round playoff matchups and you have the makings of something worthwhile.
November 8th, 2018 at 8:47 AM ^
No because how do you determine a 2 vs a 3 seed? It will still be human decision.
8 team with each P5 conference champion, 3 wild cards. 1 stipulation is a undefeated G5 team will automatically be a wildcard.
November 8th, 2018 at 9:46 AM ^
That is why you would still need a committee to make that determination.
November 8th, 2018 at 12:55 PM ^
I always post my dream scenario-- so here it is, again!
Setup: 11 Conferences of 10 teams each. No more independents. Each stadium required to hold 25K.
Each team plays 8 conference games and two non-conference games. FCS games no longer count.
11 Conference Champions and 5 at-large bids play a 16-team playoff.
- First Three games are played at the higher seed's home field. Championship Game at a neutral site.
- Each team plays four games. Top eight seeds are guaranteed two home games regardless of out come.
Teams 17-32 play a second tournament. Each team plays four here too. Difference is: each team gets two home games-- up to and including the championship game. Top seed gets to decide where the games are played.
Teams 33-100 are randomly assigned two additional games one home, one away. This way, we'd get to see weird games like "LSU at BGSU" that would never otherwise happen.
November 8th, 2018 at 1:02 PM ^
Only if you force the independent teams into conferences.
November 9th, 2018 at 3:03 AM ^
I like this one:
8 teams into the playoffs, where they are the 5 Power Five champs plus the three highest-ranked teams (as judged by AP rankings) that didn't already make it in.
Or, for those who feel teams like Notre Dame shouldn't just join one of the Power Five to fit into the above system, it could be the 5 Power Five champs, plus the highest-ranked (judged by AP) of the independents, plus the highest-ranked who isn't already in.
November 9th, 2018 at 1:25 PM ^
I like it, I'd reserve that other slot for a group of five team, and screw ND, they can join a conference.