re: Would you want an 8 or 16 team playoff in CFB?

Here's something I crafted a while back. If we'd had an 8-team playoff the entire time and based the eight teams on the BCS standings:

- Have an East bracket of four teams and a West Bracket of four teams. Games played on higher seed's home field.
- BCS #1 and #2 will be split into East and West.
- BCS #3 and #4 will be split into East and West by geography, not seed.
- BCS #5, #6, #7, and #8 will be split into East and West by geography, not seed.
- Arrange the two brackets by seed.
- East winner plays West winner at neutral site for the title.

Here's what we'd have right now:

East
2 Florida State vs. 7 Clemson
3 Ohio State vs. 6 Auburn

West
1 Alabama vs. 8 Missouri
4 Baylor vs. 5 Oregon

Obviously these will change, but there's an idea. I did it for every past BCS season (and I have nothing against post-season rematches, btw). Just to give you an idea of what we could have been watching all these years.

2012

East
1 Notre Dame vs 8 LSU
3 Florida vs 7 Georgia

West
2 Alabama vs 6 Stanford
4 Oregon vs 5 Kansas State

(A&M was #9. Holy crap the meltdown.)



2011

East
2 Alabama vs. 8 Kansas State
3 Oklahoma State vs. 6 Arkansas

West
1 LSU vs. 7 Boise State
4 Stanford vs. 5 Oregon



2010

East
1 Auburn vs. 6 Ohio State
3 TCU vs. 5 Wisconsin

West
2 Oregon vs. 8 Arkansas
4 Stanford vs. 7 Oklahoma



2009

East
1 Alabama vs. 8 Ohio State
3 Cincinnati vs. 5 Florida

West
2 Texas vs. 7 Oregon
4 TCU vs. 6 Boise State



2008

East
2 Florida vs. 8 Penn State
3 Texas vs. 4 Alabama

West
1 Oklahoma vs. 7 Texas Tech
5 USC vs. 6 Utah



2007

East
1 Ohio State vs. 6 Missouri
3 Virginia Tech vs. 5 Georgia

West
2 LSU vs. 10 Hawaii (or 8 Kansas if you have no heart)
4 Oklahoma vs. 7 USC



2006

East
2 Florida vs. 7 Wisconsin
3 Michigan vs. 6 Louisville

West
1 Ohio State vs. 8 Boise State
4 LSU vs. 5 USC



2005

East
2 Texas vs. 8 Miami
3 Penn State vs. 7 Georgia

West
1 USC vs. 6 Notre Dame
4 Ohio State vs. 5 Oregon



2004

East
2 Oklahoma vs. 8 Virginia Tech
3 Auburn vs. 7 Georgia

West
1 USC vs. 6 Utah
4 Texas vs. 5 California



2003

East
2 LSU vs. 8 Tennessee
4 Michigan vs. 7 Florida State

West
1 Oklahoma vs. 6 Texas
3 USC vs. 5 Ohio State



2002

East
1 Miami vs. 8 Kansas State
3 Georgia vs. 5 Iowa

West
2 Ohio State vs. 7 Oklahoma
4 USC vs. 6 Washington State



2001

East
1 Miami vs. 6 Tennessee
3 Colorado vs. 5 Florida


West
2 Nebraska vs. 8 Illinois
4 Oregon vs. 7 Texas



2000

East
2 Florida State vs. 7 Florida
3 Miami vs. 5 Virginia Tech

West
1 Oklahoma vs. 8 Nebraska
4 Washington vs. 6 Oregon State



1999

East
2 Virginia Tech vs. 8 Michigan
4 Alabama vs. 5 Tennessee

West
1 Florida State vs. 7 Wisconsin
3 Nebraska vs. 6 Kansas State



1998

East
1 Tennessee vs. 8 Florida
3 Ohio State vs. 6 Texas A&M

West
2 Florida State vs. 7 Arizona
4 Kansas State vs. 5 UCLA