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Five 14 to 16 team super conferences
Posted on 9/19/11 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 9/19/11 at 4:02 pm
My ideal scenario would include FIVE super conferences and a 10 team playoff. The 10 team playoff would include:
1) 5 Automatic Bids for the 5 conference winners
2) 5 At Large Bids to the 5 highest ranked BCS teams at season's end (after conference title games) that didn't win their conference.
3) No more than 3 teams from any 1 conference and teams are seeded strictly based on the BCS ranking of each team. If the 3rd team from a very strong conference is seeded ahead of the winner of the weakest conference then so be it.
4) 10 team playoff starts the weekend after the conference title games with 2 play in games with #7 seed playing #10 seed and #8 and #9 seeds playing each other on the home field of the higher seeded game. These 2 games would be "play in" games for the #7 and #8 seeds. Seeds #1 thru #6 get byes.
5) The 8 team playoff is played in 4 BCS bowl games played in back to back nights with 2 prime time double headers each night. The games are played in 2 consecutive nights close to New Year's Eve/New Year's Day that doesn't intefere with the NFL (Friday or Saturday late afternoon/night).
6) The next 2 games are played as either a double header or on back to back nights at the same venue. Kinda like a college football version of the Final 4. How cool would that be!!
Finally, the championship game is played a week later. This would essentially extend college football for 1 week for 4 teams and 2 weeks for 2 teams. You could keep all the other bowls as is.
This playoff allows another conference to form to give a lot of the leftover teams to have a spot (probably some combo of the Big 12 and Big East)and salvage their programs. It would allow conferences to stay at 14 teams or go to 16 if they choose. It also allows a shot for everyone at the national title while maintaining advantages to teams that play very difficult schedules by having 5 spots set aside for at large teams that have great years but don't win their conference.
The money to be made off such a playoff would be off the charts.
1) 5 Automatic Bids for the 5 conference winners
2) 5 At Large Bids to the 5 highest ranked BCS teams at season's end (after conference title games) that didn't win their conference.
3) No more than 3 teams from any 1 conference and teams are seeded strictly based on the BCS ranking of each team. If the 3rd team from a very strong conference is seeded ahead of the winner of the weakest conference then so be it.
4) 10 team playoff starts the weekend after the conference title games with 2 play in games with #7 seed playing #10 seed and #8 and #9 seeds playing each other on the home field of the higher seeded game. These 2 games would be "play in" games for the #7 and #8 seeds. Seeds #1 thru #6 get byes.
5) The 8 team playoff is played in 4 BCS bowl games played in back to back nights with 2 prime time double headers each night. The games are played in 2 consecutive nights close to New Year's Eve/New Year's Day that doesn't intefere with the NFL (Friday or Saturday late afternoon/night).
6) The next 2 games are played as either a double header or on back to back nights at the same venue. Kinda like a college football version of the Final 4. How cool would that be!!
Finally, the championship game is played a week later. This would essentially extend college football for 1 week for 4 teams and 2 weeks for 2 teams. You could keep all the other bowls as is.
This playoff allows another conference to form to give a lot of the leftover teams to have a spot (probably some combo of the Big 12 and Big East)and salvage their programs. It would allow conferences to stay at 14 teams or go to 16 if they choose. It also allows a shot for everyone at the national title while maintaining advantages to teams that play very difficult schedules by having 5 spots set aside for at large teams that have great years but don't win their conference.
The money to be made off such a playoff would be off the charts.
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Posted on 9/19/11 at 4:12 pm to Govt Tide
an 8 team playoff is not possible through the bowls. you would have to get a fanbase to travel to 3 separate bowl games.
the only playoff that will happen is one completely contained inside the bowl system: which would be 4 teams at maximum.
the only playoff that will happen is one completely contained inside the bowl system: which would be 4 teams at maximum.
Posted on 9/19/11 at 4:20 pm to Govt Tide
I would rather see an eight team playoff with the 5 Automatics and the Next best three Conference Champions slated in a three week playoff. This way:
1. You have to be your conference champion to be the National Champion.
2. Nobody is left out of the possibility of having the best team in the country and not getting a shot - Which IS un-American.
3. The bowls are left for everyone else to have a chance to win "something".
4. The bowls still play a part here, having a selection show for the "seeding" of the Championship Round.
5. Bowls can rotate the final 7 games.
Citrus - Orlando?
Cotton - Dallas?
Fiesta - Phoenix
Orange - Miami
Peach - Atlanta?
Rose - Pasadena
Sugar - New Orleans
Plan still has some holes in it, but It would keep the regular season extremely important, which is what College Football is all about.
Week One Games for Playoff - Dec 20 +/-.
Week 2 Games for Playoffs New Years Day Bowls. Championship Game At least 7 days Later. Friday or Monday Night during NFL Playoffs.
1. You have to be your conference champion to be the National Champion.
2. Nobody is left out of the possibility of having the best team in the country and not getting a shot - Which IS un-American.
3. The bowls are left for everyone else to have a chance to win "something".
4. The bowls still play a part here, having a selection show for the "seeding" of the Championship Round.
5. Bowls can rotate the final 7 games.
Citrus - Orlando?
Cotton - Dallas?
Fiesta - Phoenix
Orange - Miami
Peach - Atlanta?
Rose - Pasadena
Sugar - New Orleans
Plan still has some holes in it, but It would keep the regular season extremely important, which is what College Football is all about.
Week One Games for Playoff - Dec 20 +/-.
Week 2 Games for Playoffs New Years Day Bowls. Championship Game At least 7 days Later. Friday or Monday Night during NFL Playoffs.
This post was edited on 9/19/11 at 4:30 pm
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