View Full Version : Describe your perfect College Football playoff system
HoosierBoy
09-24-2007, 08:58 PM
For "The Division Formerly Known as D-1A".
Here's mine:
Shorten regular season by one game (yes, I know this would cause a lot of bitching amongst the schools, particularly those who would stand to drop a home game from their schedule).
Eight team playoff: Take the six major conference champions (ACC, Big East, Pac-10, Big 10, SEC, and Big 12) along with two other at large teams. Play the first two rounds of the tournament in late November/early December, at neutral sites.
The two finalists can then meet in the National Championship game in January; the site of that game can be one of the four major bowl games. The six losing teams of the tournament will fill in the major bowl games. "Conference vs. conference" traditional matchups can be preserved as much as possible (Big 10 vs. Pac 10 in the Rose).
There. A playoff system that preserves the bowls. How hard is that, NCAA?
Now I invite you all to top me.
cmartini
09-24-2007, 09:25 PM
leave it as is
HoosierBoy
09-25-2007, 10:40 AM
leave it as is
So we can keep having co-National champions?
cman1787
09-25-2007, 10:56 AM
top 10 teams play each other in the playoffs
GoldBlue
09-25-2007, 11:04 AM
For "The Division Formerly Known as D-1A".
Here's mine:
Shorten regular season by one game (yes, I know this would cause a lot of bitching amongst the schools, particularly those who would stand to drop a home game from their schedule).
Eight team playoff: Take the six major conference champions (ACC, Big East, Pac-10, Big 10, SEC, and Big 12) along with two other at large teams. Play the first two rounds of the tournament in late November/early December, at neutral sites.
The two finalists can then meet in the National Championship game in January; the site of that game can be one of the four major bowl games. The six losing teams of the tournament will fill in the major bowl games. "Conference vs. conference" traditional matchups can be preserved as much as possible (Big 10 vs. Pac 10 in the Rose).
There. A playoff system that preserves the bowls. How hard is that, NCAA?
Now I invite you all to top me.
Wow mine is almost identical.
I say shorten the out of conference games by two. Do we really need to see DIA teams put up 70 pts against D IIA teams?
Take the top 8, and pick bowls to host the games. Like Cotton, Holiday, Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Emerald and Sun bowls. Top 4 advance to the traditional 4 bowl games. Then the final two are in the BCS bowl.
dustin156
09-25-2007, 11:14 AM
have the coaches fight in a battle royal style match, except on the football field. Once a coach is pushed from the field of play his team loses.
EDIT: no rules
EDIT2: charlie weiss' fat ass must be triple teamed early if he is to be moved.
Gator Alum 03
09-25-2007, 11:17 AM
Hoosier Boy's methodology seems best, however it will never happen...sadly.
Jim Delaney is the reason.
RockyIV
09-25-2007, 11:59 AM
Like D1-AA
Wow mine is almost identical.
I say shorten the out of conference games by two. Do we really need to see DIA teams put up 70 pts against D IIA teams?
Take the top 8, and pick bowls to host the games. Like Cotton, Holiday, Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Emerald and Sun bowls. Top 4 advance to the traditional 4 bowl games. Then the final two are in the BCS bowl.
This is the way it should be. And every year the BCS bowl game would rotate to other traditional bowls, that way they all get a piece of the pie.
spritz
09-25-2007, 12:12 PM
I would be happy with just a simple +1 system. still will have your bowls that everyone enjoys but you have your top four schools play like #1-#4 and #2-#3, then just finish it off with the national championship a week later in whatever bowl hosts the national championship that year. I just hate having 3 or 4 deserving teams at the end of the year, and we have teams left out.
Eight team playoff: Take the six major conference champions (ACC, Big East, Pac-10, Big 10, SEC, and Big 12) along with two other at large teams. Play the first two rounds of the tournament in late November/early December, at neutral sites.
I like some of your suggestions, but I don't agree with every conference being represented. Whatever teams have the best record should go, regardless if every conference is represented.
That's the one thing that I don't like about the NFL playoffs. A team finishes 10-6, but finishes 2nd or 3rd in their division and sits at home because an 8-8 team won their weaker division.