re: 2 reasons why an 8 team playoff will fail

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do you realize the revenue inequality that would arise if schools had possibly 2 more home games?

that's $6-8M for a team possibly

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They'd be the teams with the higher seeds though. Couldn't it be argued they earned the right to host those games by earning a higher seed?

That would bring up the issue of seeding in this hypothetical; and past #2 that gets a little fuzzy as well... and that would lead to controversy over that theoretical revenue...

God damnit. You win

If the intention of creating a national college football tournament is an attempt to reduce the amount of schools that complain about being left out, forget about it. The NCAA Basketball Tournament extends invitations to 64 teams and still there are teams that feel they were treated unfairly by the system. The media likes to take shots at the BCS because the BCS selection process reduced the amount of input/control they had over the selection of the national champion. The BCS may not be perfect, but in this case, perfection will never be acheived.

with 6 spots you'd have to just let BCS conference winners in, and that will be fricked up

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at least the BCS gives parameters for teams to know what is needed

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Thank god the AP Poll is no longer used in the BCS. Some of the people that participate in that poll are completely clueless.

I can only hope that situation has been improved with the alterations of 2004.

Honestly, I have no idea why people want to make themselves miserable with a playoff system in college football.

First of all, there will always be teams that think they "should" have made the playoffs, but didn't, even if you had a 64-team playoff.

Secondly, it cheapens the importance of the regular season. Don't even try to argue it. It DOES.

Thirdly, even though there MAY be too bowl games... if there's 36 of them, that means 18 teams end the season happy. In a playoff system, only one team ends the season happy. That's just what we need... greater emphasis placed on winning at all costs in college football.

And how often will YOUR team finish as the one happy team? I'll tell you: a hell of a lot less than you think.

You can count me out of supporting ANYTHING that makes college football more like professional football.

I promise you 100% that a playoff system will RUIN the fun of college football.

Oh, but it works so well in 1-AA, you say? Division 1 is a whole other animal.

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or you could just use the bcs formulas to determine the best 6 teams, frick letting conference winners in

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no way, say, the ACC will allow the SEC to double dip in the money while it gets $0

I have a formula where all BCS conferences have a shot, one non-BCS and one team who got the shaft. (Texas this year.)

PAC 10, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, Big East and SEC all play a conference title game. The winner of that game gets a spot in the playoff. That would leave two openings.

You take the two highest ranked non-BCS schools and have them play a title game for a spot or a play in game.

The last spot goes to the highest ranked team not to get one of the 7 spots. So a team like Texas who deserved to play for the Big 12 title, would still get a shot.

You seed the teams based on final ranking. First two rounds highest ranked team gets home field advantage. Losing teams get assigned a BCS bowl. After two weeks of playoffs all the BCS bowls will have games assigned. I looked through the schedule and you could do all this with a break between the second round and BCS games. Every conference has a shot to qualify and one team gets a wild card spot.

I do believe there has been this same sentiment earlier in the post, but whether you're choosing the two teams worthy of a title or the top eight teams, there will never be a clear cut number. There will always be controversy because more than 8 teams will feel they deserve a legitimate shot at the title, and those who don't recieve one of the coveted 8 spots will always lean back on unfair politics, favoritism, bigger money for bigger schools, yada yada yada

8 team playoff will just move the bitching from who is #1, or #2, to who is #8. it will not solve the whining. then everyone has to play a conf champ game. which wont happen for a long time. and by letting all of the "bcs" conf champs + 2 more, better teams will be left out. regardless of conf affiliation. there will be fewer mid majors involved, which is why this shite started. and in recent years, the big east, and acc have sucked. the sec and big 12 had multiple teams better than their champ.