re: Playoff system would solve the problem

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Seriously? Can I hear your football playoff plan that will not be left up to the humans?

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I'm not sure, but how much human influence does calculating strength of schedule have? This is not calling anyone out, just trying to see how things would work out.

Simple way: conference winners go to the playoffs. NBA does it, NFL does it, etc. They have no need for human polling, and no room for bitching because you got left out. I understand that leads to the problem with non-BCS-conference schools:

1) 8 team playoff, with BCS and non-BCS schools
6 BCS conference winners get in automatically; use strength of schedule for 1-6 rankings (if SOS has human influence, it doesnt matter at this point with these 6 teams, because they didn't get left out).

Here is the tricky part, and I would need to think about this a bit more. You could take the next two teams with the best record; if there are 2+ teams with the same record, use SOS to pick the top 2. This might have some human influence, but like I said, I don't know how much SOS is influenced by humans.

2) Ideally, force independents to join a BCS conference, and if necessary, make an additional 2 conferences. Then you can just say boom, eight conferences winners, eight team playoff.