Playoff idea for college football

[rmilia1]

What do you guys think of this idea? You have a 16 team playoff that begins the 3rd week of December and ends the 2nd week of January ( which is when the season ends now). You take the conference champions of the 6 AQ leagues and seed them 1-6 based on the BCS rankings. The next 10 at larges are filled in by the next 10 highest ranked teams in the BCS. You play the first round games at the same 8 bowls every year and rotate the quarters and semis amongst the 4 current BCS bowls and 2 others that are added ( say the Cotton and Cap One). The playoff teams are determined the week before the conference title games so a team that makes their leagues title game and loses is not penalized, while a team that doesnt make their elagues title game isn rewarded. This system lets you keep everything intact that we currently have, lets us keep the bowl games, still has significant value to winning your league and gives EVERYONE a shot. As an example this years playoffs would look like.

Outback Bowl- #1 LSU vs #16 Wisconsin
Gator Bowl- #8 Stanford vs #9 Houston
Alamo Bowl- # 4 Oregon vs #13 Kansas State
Liberty Bowl- #5 Michigan State vs #12 Oklahoma
Sun Bowl- # 3 VT vs #14 South Carolina
Insight Bowl- # 6 West Virginia vs #11 Arkansas
Pinstripe Bowl- #7 Bama vs #10 Boise
Peach Bowl- #2 OK State vs #15 Georgia

I dont see any real drawbacks to this idea other than travel for the fans to multiple games but most of these teams wouldnt be playing more than 1 or 2 games. I think the money/TV rights would be HUGE and it would allow us to still use the current system. Plus it rewards conference champions while still making OOC games important as well ( some playof ideas propose only involving conference champions which IMO would make the OOC moot and useless)

 

[rolltide14_0]

I don't really care, just as long as it's setup to where teams like Alabama, OSU, VT, Houston, and Stanford this season all still have a shot to play the their way into the title game fairly, even after dropping 1 game.

This way seems perfectly good.

 

[rmilia1]

I don't really care, just as long as it's setup to where teams like Alabama, OSU, VT, Houston, and Stanford this season all still have a shot to play the their way into the title game fairly, even after dropping 1 game.

I think this system is about as fair as it gets. You are incentivizing conference titles but still allowing teams a chance to win a title even if they have a loss or 2.

 

[rolltide14_0]

I think this system is about as fair as it gets. You are incentivizing conference titles but still allowing teams a chance to win a title even if they have a loss or 2.

Yeah, and if they are able to get there by winning it on the field, that eliminates all bitching and moaning. Sounds good to me, I hope they hurry up and make a change, like in the next 2 seasons.

 

[iowajerms]

Here was mine that i did last week

http://www.sportshoopla.com/forums/...ink-12-16-team-playoff-system-could-work.html

 

[EvilVodka]

I don't really care, just as long as it's setup to where teams like Alabama, OSU, VT, Houston, and Stanford this season all still have a shot to play the their way into the title game fairly, even after dropping 1 game.

This way seems perfectly good.

Alabama is the only team that I think has any fair argument to play their way into a championship

Houston? seriously dude? no freaking way, they got decimated in their championship game

I'm not hot on Stanford either

Virginia Tech lost their Championship game as well

Oklahoma State won their conference championship, and they've got 1 loss...they'd be in for sure.

 

[rmilia1]

Alabama is the only team that I think has any fair argument to play their way into a championship

Houston? seriously dude? no freaking way, they got decimated in their championship game

I'm not hot on Stanford either

Virginia Tech lost their Championship game as well

Oklahoma State won their conference championship, and they've got 1 loss...they'd be in for sure.

The Op was last week before Houston, VT lost.

 

[BigAppleBadger]

1) You have too many teams. 8 teams is enough.

2) The selection process should favor conference champions not the top 8 (or top 4, 12, 16, whatever). The whole point of a playoff is to get as far away as possible from the whole rankings/voters/computers concept.


My proposal:

- 8 team playoff
- 5 conference champions (B10, SEC, B12, ACC, P12) and 3 at-large teams
- Any undefeated FBS team outside of those five conferences is in automatically
- Only then are remaining spots filled by the highest ranked remaining teams (and NOT picked from the top 14 at the choice of the bowls)


Ideally you can still use the BCS bowls (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta) as the first round venues, with the traditional Rose Bowl matchup between Big Ten and Pac-12 retained.

You'd be playing college football until the 3rd weekend in January, but is that so bad?

 

[CrimsonFan]

4 teams is the most realistic.

 

[rmilia1]

I dont know why everyone says that 16 is too many. FCS has more than 16, D2 has more than 16, D3 has more than 16 and all these schools operate on budgets WAYYY less than FBS teams, they all go to school just like FBS teams yet somehow they manage to pull it off. 16 teams is perfect ( 16 out of 120 gives you basically the top teams). 8 is OK, 4 is too small and in alot of years it would leave out other teams with a legit gripe.

 

[MarkOU]

Can't have all those playoffs games at bowls. The bowls are the reason for the corruption and lack of championships. They are they exact opposite of what the NCAA punishes those at the bottom of the chain for doing and thats profiting from gifts and favors and sometimes, cash.

If you end the BCS you must end the Bowls or the corruption continues. The fat cats in charge are in control of this. They benifit. They profit. I'm talking about the presidents and athletic directors the conference commisssioners.

You know when those three groups talk about this or that and who is holding them back, you know why? Because its b.s. They have business intrests in what they are doing. Promises made and Contracts. Don't be fooled. Its about getting theirs. Their 'retirement' if you will. They are hearing the noise and thats why you hear some talk of having money extended to the players. Nice distraction and its shameful.

End the culture of corruption and you will have your playoffs.