re: 2 reasons why an 8 team playoff will fail

I would love to see an 8 team playoff but the logistics for the teams and fanbase not to mention the expense to try and follow your team all over the country with 4-5 days notice to possibly three extra games will never work.The plus one at a fifth bowl site(COTTON) will be the most we ever see IMHO.

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SlowFlowPro

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What about Qualifications Based Playoffs, such as the model that xiv proposed a few months ago? I don't see any noticeable flaws in that model.

The general idea of it has been around for a while. He merely made a specific variant of it that I find very appealing. Copy and Paste from earlier post:

The Qualifications Based Playoff
as proposed by xiv


The number of playoff teams is not predetermined, though it never exceeds 8.

You make the playoffs if any of the following are true:
- You are BCS #1
- You are BCS #2
- You are undefeated, and your SOS is more than .450 (ie, two times your opponents' winning percentage, plus your opponents' opponents' winning percentage, divided by three) (2006 Boise State and 2004 Utah would have qualified this way; 2007 Hawaii would not have qualified.). If there are more than six such teams that are not BCS #1/#2, the six that have the highest BCS ratings will be chosen.
- You have a BCS rating of at least .90000 and there are not already eight teams who have qualified.

Seed the teams in order of their BCS rating, and make a bracket. Any opening rounds are to be played the 2nd and 3rd Saturdays of December at the home stadium of the higher-seeded teams. In the case of odd-numbered teams selected, byes are given to higher seeds. Seed switching to reduce travel will be encouraged. The BCS title game will be played the 2nd week of January at a predetermined site.



Previous Seasons Hypothetical Brackets:

Let's look at 2006, a really controversial year.

Qualifiers:
-Ohio State (BCS #1)
-Florida (BCS #2
-Boise State (Undefeated with adequate SOS, BCS #8)
-Michigan (.9000 BCS rating, BCS #3)

Opening round:
Boise State at Ohio State
Michigan at Florida

BCS Title Game (Glendale): BSU/OSU vs. UM/UF


Let's take 2007, a really weird year.

BCS #1: Ohio State
BCS #2: Louisiana State

And that's it. frick you, Georgia. The only undefeated team was Hawaii, who had the single weakest FBS schedule, so they're out. And no other schools had .9000 BCS ratings. No playoffs in 2007, other than the BCS title game.



2004 was a fun year. Let's do that one.

BCS #1: Southern California
BCS #2: Oklahoma
>.9000 BCS rating: BCS #3 Auburn
Undefeated with a decent SOS: BCS #6 Utah
Notable non-qualifier: Boise State (undefeated, inadequate SOS)

This playoff would have kicked arse:
Utah at Southern California
Auburn at Oklahoma

The two winners square off in Miami.

And 2003:

BCS #1: Oklahoma
BCS #2: Louisiana State
>.9000 BCS rating, BCS #3: Southern California

USC at LSU

Oklahoma gets a first round bye and plays the winner.


This system is different from all others in that, if any team ever had a complaint about its exclusion, you could always pin-point the exact reason they didn't make it. Either they didn't achieve a high-enough BCS rating, they played too many cupcakes, or they were Georgia.

no system will ever allow an uncertain # of games

and his SOS factor is (1) flawed (non-BCS wins count as much as BCS wins) and (2) too low

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Seed switching to reduce travel will be encouraged.

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what does this mean?

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If you have 3 losses and get left out of the chance to play for a national title...so what?

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if this is your attitude, when why ever let this tier of team have a shot at the title?

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There aren't ever going to be 12 teams in the country with a resume good enough to make an argument for the NCG. If you have 3 losses and get left out of the chance to play for a national title...so what?

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this is how i feel on a personal level, but if the ncaa committee has 34 at large berths and people still feel screwed- it wont matter how many seeds there are. we leave it as is: teams 3 and 4 are left out. go to 8 team tourney: 9, 10, 11 feel screwed. doesnt matter how many you take, someone is on the outsdie looking in.

and something to keep in mind with seeding/BCS/poll rankings: voters have proven their final vote is one to see the match-up(s) they want. thats how florida got to #2 in 06, LSU jumped to #2 in 07. i dont know if this a good thing or bad, but it exists

it's not workable

a true plus one would be a better model

but you have to have a set schedule of how many teams play, where, and when, or it won't work in reality

so whatever governining body is going to rent the same venue every year for 2 weeks, with that venue likely not being used every year (maybe not even every other year)? no wa