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Gary Patterson proposes six team playoff + no more conference championship games
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:19 pm
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:19 pm
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Even though TCU was left out of the inaugural College Football Playoff this season, Gary Patterson isn’t one of those people clamoring to see it go from four teams to eight teams.
Nope, he’d like to see it go to six teams.
In doing so, Patterson said the top two teams would get byes, and if the other leagues agreed to do away with their conference championship games, the current playoff schedule could stay intact, and there would be a representative from all Power 5 conferences, along with a true at-large team.
“To me, it makes no sense to have four playoff spots and then have five conferences,” Patterson told ESPN.com. “This way gives everybody a chance to have their champion or their best team be a part of the playoff, and a sixth team that could be from any conference, and then you get down to that final four pretty quickly and still not change the way we do things.
One of the trickiest parts of his plan would be other conferences agreeing to eliminate their championship games. The Big 12 currently doesn’t play a conference championship game, while the other four Power 5 conferences are split into divisions and play championship games.
Patterson’s rationale is the SEC is the only conference for which the championship game has been a big hit. By freeing up that first weekend in December to play the first two games in a six-team playoff, there wouldn’t be any reason to lengthen the season, which has been one of the chief concerns about expanding the field.
Under Patterson’s plan, the No. 3 seed would play the No. 6 seed and the No. 4 seed would play the No. 5 seed the first weekend in December. The winners would advance to play the top two seeds on New Year’s Day in the semifinals, and the championship game would be 10 days later.
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This post was edited on 2/14/15 at 11:28 pm
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:24 pm to Bench McElroy
Should be 8
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:24 pm to Bench McElroy
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and if the other leagues agreed to do away with their conference championship games
no
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:34 pm to saintsfan22
Just because your Big 12 conference frickibg sucks TCU, dont drag the rest of us down with it. How about Big 12 get a fricking championship game like the rest of the nation and do the 6 teams? Hmmm that took a fricking genious to figure out
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:35 pm to Tiger Nation 84
No joke. Big 12 can't get out of its own way
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:37 pm to Bench McElroy
Not the worst plan I've ever heard, but I don't want to have to give up the sec champ game.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 11:43 pm to Bench McElroy
Not 6, but 8. 8 is good. 5 conference champions plus 3 at larges.
And you wouldnt have the top two teams get a bye, obvious advantage.
And you wouldnt have the top two teams get a bye, obvious advantage.
This post was edited on 2/14/15 at 11:45 pm
Posted on 2/15/15 at 12:35 am to Bench McElroy
My idea has always been the top 6 conference champions picked and seeded by a BCS like computer system.
#3 and #4 get home games against #6 and #5 respectively.
Then #1 gets the lowest seeded winner at home and #2 gets the other winner at home.
The National Championship is at a neutral site game.
The positives of this idea:
There can be no complaining from a Power 5 Conference for not getting into the playoff.
The Mid Majors are guaranteed a chance to make it.
It is a win to get in model. There is not a subjective poll or committee using the bull shite "eye test". I strongly disagree with at large teams personally with the large pool of teams to compete.
Having a stronger resume provides the huge advantage and benefit of a bye and/or home playoff game.
We don't have to worry about fans trying to travel to back to back neutral site games.
Negative:
Independents would have to join a conference to participate. I personally think special rules for independents in the past was dumb anyways.
#3 and #4 get home games against #6 and #5 respectively.
Then #1 gets the lowest seeded winner at home and #2 gets the other winner at home.
The National Championship is at a neutral site game.
The positives of this idea:
There can be no complaining from a Power 5 Conference for not getting into the playoff.
The Mid Majors are guaranteed a chance to make it.
It is a win to get in model. There is not a subjective poll or committee using the bull shite "eye test". I strongly disagree with at large teams personally with the large pool of teams to compete.
Having a stronger resume provides the huge advantage and benefit of a bye and/or home playoff game.
We don't have to worry about fans trying to travel to back to back neutral site games.
Negative:
Independents would have to join a conference to participate. I personally think special rules for independents in the past was dumb anyways.
This post was edited on 2/15/15 at 12:36 am
Posted on 2/15/15 at 2:09 am to Tiger Nation 84
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Just because your Big 12 conference frickibg sucks TCU, dont drag the rest of us down with it. How about Big 12 get a fricking championship game like the rest of the nation and do the 6 teams? Hmmm that took a fricking genious to figure out
The Ncaa doesn't allow them to have a champ game.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 2:11 am to Sevendust912
The Big 12 didn't follow the rules to have one is what you meant.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 2:17 am to Sevendust912
You mean the big 12 doesn't have enough teams to field a championship game? You are correct
Posted on 2/15/15 at 2:28 am to Sevendust912
Well I have no idea what else you could mean because the NCAA does not allow conferences with fewer than 12 teams play a conference championship game in football. It's kind of a rule
This post was edited on 2/15/15 at 2:29 am
Posted on 2/15/15 at 2:42 am to Tiger Nation 84
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genious
Well, this was sad.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 5:35 am to Bench McElroy
quote:
six team playoff
That or 8 would've been what I've been supporting all along. But at the same time, I was fine with how this year went at 4.
quote:
no more conference championship games
Disagree with GP there
Posted on 2/15/15 at 6:30 am to Bench McElroy
Do away with divisions(allow top 2 to play in ccg), have ccg across the board, and keep the 4.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 6:37 am to Sevendust912
Can you say waiver? They can easily petition to NCAA and get that waiver to host a conference championship game.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 6:54 am to EastNastySwag
I don't understand how anyone thinks teams having home games in the first round is fair in any way.
Homefield advantage in CFB is huge. You have to do neutral fields to determine who is the "better" team. That's why the whole "it works in FCS" argument is crap. If OSU had to travel to LSU for a playoff game and lost by 3, I'd be pissed as all hell, because some committee thought a 12-1 LSU was better than a 12-1 OSU. LSU fans would be just as pissed as if the opposite happened and I don't blame them.
Homefield advantage in CFB is huge. You have to do neutral fields to determine who is the "better" team. That's why the whole "it works in FCS" argument is crap. If OSU had to travel to LSU for a playoff game and lost by 3, I'd be pissed as all hell, because some committee thought a 12-1 LSU was better than a 12-1 OSU. LSU fans would be just as pissed as if the opposite happened and I don't blame them.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 6:56 am to Bench McElroy
Again, use the old BCS system and have your 4 BCS games, then match up the 4 winners for the semis, and then the last 2 remaining for the championship.
This was the easiest fix.
This was the easiest fix.
Posted on 2/15/15 at 7:07 am to Buckeye06
Yeah if they went to 8 teams I don't think you could avoid first round home games. The 4 vs 5 matchup would give the 4 seed a decided advantage on what could be a razor thin margin between them. One solution would be to put the 4-5 game at a neutral site and only give seeds 1-3 home games. This would give each of the 4 big bowls a game (4-5, semis and final).
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