Yeah, but then you're putting in teams like Cincy and VaTech who don't deserve a shot at a national title. If you're gonna do it that way, just make it 1 autobid and 12 teams. 11 conference winners.
Why does an 11-2 Cincy team not deserve a chance at the title, but a 10-2 Ohio State team is or a 9-3 Oklahoma State team does?
Here would be my format for the regular season and playoffs:All teams would play 12 regular season games in 13 weeks beginning the last weekend in August and finishing the third weekend of November. All games must be played against Division 1 opponents unless there was an odd number of total teams, then somebody would have to play a FBS opponent. Conference championship games would not be played.
Playoff Schedule
1st Round: Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend (@ Higher Seed)
2nd Round: First weekend in December (@ Higher Seed)
3rd Round: Third weekend in December (Regional/Neutral Sites)
Semi-Finals: New Year’s Day (Neutral Site(s))
Championship: January 8 (or thereabout) (Neutral Site)Now, the good thing about having the opening weekend of playoffs on Thanksgiving weekend is that a) it will allow most fans an extra day or two off to get to their destination and b ) all the games can probably be watched by college football fans over the course of the day on television, whereas if they were all played on Saturday many would be on at the same time. The drawback is that the students at each institution will technically be away on break and would not have a dorm to sleep in, and it’s a tough time to travel (though several rivalry games are played on that weekend currently). I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks though. I skipped the second weekend of December so that exams could be taken/prepared for the week before or after that weekend depending on each university’s schedule.
Bowl games can still be held for the 32 not-invited teams that are currently considered bowl eligible, and even for the 1st round losers if the NCAA desires. They are meaningless money-makers now, so they can be the same with a playoff in place.
You can’t have 5 playoff games. That’s almost half the games you play in the regular season. Too many. Eight teams is plenty. Three games is 1/4 of the season. Same as the NFL for non-bye teams.
[QUOTE=pir8fan05;368952]Just copy/pasting this from someone else…but I like it:
[COLOR=darkgreen]there are 120 schools in the BCS subdivision and 124 in the FCS subdivision.
the BCS should be cut back to 96 schools in 8 conferences (12 teams each)
with two divisions (6 teams each) in each conference. The remaining teams form a new 80 team FCS subdivision with the better FCS conferences, the rest of the conferences and independents form another subdivision. Each subdivision has it’s own playoffs.
get rid of the MAC and Sunbelt for starters along with a couple of other noncompetitive schools to get there.
Start them all playing the closest Saturday to Sept 1 and run a 12 game schedule over 13 weeks.
Bye weeks scheduled for the weeks 5, 6, and 7 (two teams from each division) based upon the previous years conference standings. The better your previous year’s finish the earlier your bye week
Each team plays all division opponents, 3 from the other division of their conference (rotated yearly), and 4 nonconference opponents. This gives teams the ability to preserve nonconference rivalries (SC vs Clemson, Georgia vs Georgia Tech for example) and schedule other opponents (to beef up strength of schedule) as well.
All conferences have a championship game, the winner gets an automatic bid to a 16 team playoff. The other 8 slots are at large bids.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
Please tell me this was not another Pirate’s fan because this crap smacks of BCS elitism.
[QUOTE=Mullins Maniac;368992]You can’t have 5 playoff games. That’s almost half the games you play in the regular season. Too many. Eight teams is plenty. Three games is 1/4 of the season. Same as the NFL for non-bye teams.[/QUOTE]
That would only be for two teams. The Giants and Steelers played 4 to win their Super Bowls, after having played 16 regular season games and 4 pre-season games.
32 teams + the bowl teams = play 13 games
16 teams = play 14 games
8 teams = play 15 games
4 teams = play 16 games
2 teams = play 17 games.
Hmmmmm. Strangely enough, high schools across the country play a schedule that is only one game less than that for each round. Haven’t heard them complaining about “it’s too many games”. :huh: Little Johnny and his team can go to a bowl game if the playoffs would be too grueling for them.
16 team playoff.
All 11 conference champs plus the top 5 teams left.
Seeding would be into East and West brackets of 8 teams each and ranked according to the current BCS standard.
Top 4 teams in each half host home games against the bottom 4.
Next week they move to Quarterfinal Bowl Games, then Simifinals and finally the National Championship game.
The bowl games will split East and West as follows:
[U]East[/U]
Peach
Orange
Sugar
[U]West[/U]
Cotton
Rose
Fiesta
The national championship will rotate every 6 years through all 6 bowls.
The simifinals will rotate every 3 years between the 3 bowls in each half.
The national championship will be held at one of the 4 lower bowl sites and never at a simifinal site in the same year.
All other bowls will operate as before.
Why does an 11-2 Cincy team not deserve a chance at the title, but a 10-2 Ohio State team is or a 9-3 Oklahoma State team does?
I’ll bite, one word. UConn. Cincy lost to an unranked opponent in UCONN, all 5 of the other loses you mentioned are from top 10 teams.
I'll bite, one word. UConn. Cincy lost to an unranked opponent in UCONN, all 5 of the other loses you mentioned are from top 10 teams.
Florida lost at home to Ole Miss…should we take them out of the equation?
[B][U]Last Four In[/U][/B]Cal
BYU
Ball State
NorthwesternFirst Four Out
Iowa
Nebraska
West Virginia
Miami
I think all conference champs should get an automatic bid, just like basketball.
[QUOTE=Over40NINER;369120]Why was Ball State one of the last 4 in? They should have been a lock. They might get their butts kicked in the first game, but they should have been a lock.
I think all conference champs should get an automatic bid, just like basketball.[/QUOTE]
If the format was played the way I propose, Ball State’s loss to Buffalo would have never happened because there would be no conference title games. For this exercise, I factored it in. Their power rating went from 17th down to 36th after losing to Buffalo, and their schedule strength was already weak compared to many of the teams vying for an at-large. They likely would have been a 4-5 seed if not for that loss.
I gave all of the conference champs the automatic berth, but technically, Ball State was not the MAC Champ.
I gave all of the conference champs the automatic berth, but technically, Ball State was not the MAC Champ.n/m
Florida lost at home to Ole Miss...should we take them out of the equation?
Ok, now your just being stupid. I’m sure there is a college football SOS, not in the mood to find it.
The entire point is Cincy did not beat as many good teams and lost to worse teams. There is a reason they are out of the top 10 in the polls and the BCS rankings, talking to you numerous times on here I know your smart enough to know why.