The BCS Solution
For the 5th time in its 9 seasons of existence, the BCS championship game will not be devoid of controversy. the only logical way to solve this problem is with a playoff system. Here's my playoff suggestion.
1) Start the season a week early. The week before Labor Day becomes the official kickoff to the college football season.
2) Teams play only 10 games. 8 conference games and 2 non-conference games.
3) With one bye week for each team, the regular season wraps up on the second weekend in November.
4) Conference title games will be played the thrid weekend in November.
5) Everyone gets Thanksgiving weekend off.
6) The playoffs start the first weekend in December.
7) 32 teams make the postseason. 11 conference champions receive automatic bids (even the Sun Belt champ has a shot at the national title) and 21 teams receive at large selections. To be an at-large selection, teams must have a winning record in conference play (5-3 or better).
8) The first, second, and third weekends in December are playoff weekends. Games are played on Friday and Saturday of the first weekend (8 per day) and second weekend (4 per day). Games are played only on Saturday on the third weekend (4 in all).
9) The final 4 get a two week break until January 1st (whatever day of the week this falls). Both semi-finals are played this day.
10) On January 8th, the final two teams square off.
11) You can even have an NIT of sorts with 16, 24, or 32 other teams that have at least 5 wins, but do not qualify for the big tourney.
There will be 31 playoff games played total. Currently, there are 32 bowl games (31 without the BCS title game). Each bowl game hosts one of the plyoff games, with the Rose Bowl always hosting the championship game. The big bowl games (Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar, Gator, and Capital One) alternate to host the four regional finals and the national semifinals. I know this is a pipe dream, but imagine the excitement on the first Friday in December when the tournament starts. College basketball has March Madness and college football would have A December to Remember.
I went ahead and made a bracket of what the current field of 32 could possibly like. Here are the following conference champions that received automatic bids.
ACC: Wake Forest
Big East: Louisville
Big 12: Oklahoma
Big 10: Ohio State
Conference USA: Houston
MAC: Central Michigan
Mountain West: BYU
Pac-10: So Cal
SEC: Florida
Sun Belt: Troy
WAC: Boise State
Imagine the suspense on selection Sunday to see your teams name appear on the big bracket board. The last 4 teams in: Hawaii, TCU, Georgia Tech, and Penn St.
Here's the lnk to the bracket.
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What do you think (of the format or on the teams selected and matchups)?
posted by matt at 7:46 PM
2 Comments:
What's sad is that even though your idea makes sense on paper there is no way we'll ever see a playoff system like this in D1 Football. There's just too much money out there in this crappy bowl system we have. I heard the Peach Bowl pays out 5 Million this year to each team. That's just absurd. College President will never allow a playoff system like this because of money. It sucks but the best we can hope for is the top 6 teams do a playoff while the other teams go to crappy bowl games. But even then there will be arguments about why the 7th ranked team was left out. Arguing about college football playoffs is like a dog chasing it's tail, there's just no sense to debating something that will never happen.
10:54 PM
That would be an exciting 5 weeks of football, I like the rules and the outcome of "this years" bracket.
Peach Bowl is paying out 5 million to each???? That's about as crazy as going out in Virginia Highlands in Atlanta and paying $5.00 for a beer.
9:03 AM
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