College Football Playoff Idea

[boisesuns]

I know there is no perfect way to make this happen, but here's something i came up with:


Conferences/ Playoff Bids/ Type
ACC: 2 Conference Champ, #2 team
Big 12: 2 Conference Champ, #2 team
Big East: 1 Conference Champ
Pac 10: 2 Conference Champ, #2 team
Big 10: 2 Conference Champ, #2 team
CUSA: 1 Conference Champ
SEC: 2 Conference Champ, #2 team
MAC: 1 Conference Champ
Sunbelt: 1 Conference Champ
WAC: 1 Conference Champ
MWC: 1 Conference Champ
Idependant/at large: 1 High Ranked Ind/other

*Smaller conferences (WAC, MAC, BIG EAST, CUSA, Sun Belt) Champoin gets one bid.
*Larger "BCS" conferences get two bids (ACC, SEC, BIG 12, PAC 10, BIG 10)
*one "playoff" bid for either and independant, or a high ranked team in ANY of the above conferences (dependant on votes and ranking)
*Sun Belt and MAC have a "Play in Game" like NCAA Basketball

BREAKDOWN (for this year)

Conferences
ACC: Florida State, Virginia Tech
Big 12: Texas, Texas Tech
Big East: West Virginia
Pac 10: USC, Oregon
Big 10: Penn State, Ohio State
CUSA: Tulsa
SEC: Georgia, Auburn
MAC: Toledo
Sunbelt: Arkansas State
WAC: Boise State
MWC: TCU
Idependant/at large: Notre Dame

16 Total Teams *After "play in" game
Seedings are based on highest AP Ranking of team

#1USC
VS
#16 Toledo.

#12 Texas Tech
VS
#5 Notre Dame


#10 Virginia Tech
VS
#7 Auburn

#14 Boise State
VS
#3 Penn St.


Other Half of the Braket

#2 TEXAS
VS
#15 Tulsa

#11 TCU
VS
#6 Oregon


#9 West VA.
VS
#8 Georgia

#13 Florida State
VS
#4 Ohio St.

NOTES
Bigger Bowls are used as "Playoff locations" with bigger bowls being the final ones (Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Rose) In all for the whole playoffs, there will be 15 total bowl games.

The other 13 bowl games will host the best ranking matchups (there will still be plenty of good bowl games for teams that didn't make the playoffs.)

Playoff system will give smaller schools a chance to play bigger time opponents and get some money to keep their programs competitive.

Best of all, the playoffs will let the teams decide the champion.

Playoffs will last 4 weeks minimun and 6 max (about the ammount of time the curret bowl season lasts)

Thoughts?

 

[PHXviaDTW]

Who controls the money in your scenario?

 

[boisesuns]

Who controls the money in your scenario?

I would guess the money would be payed out per game to the teams/conferences of those teams. It would be like bowl payouts, since the games will be at bowl game sites.

There are many ways it could work, but this is just a suggestion.

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Arkansas State, Tulsa, And Toledo should get a shot while Miami and LSU get stuck at home? I don't think so. I don't mind the idea of a 16 team playoff (would rather have 8 or 12 teams though) but I'd rather there be the BCS conference winners and 10 at-large teams. That way the mid-majors can earn their way in by playing and beating solid competition like Boise, Fresno State, Utah, TCU, and Louisville have done in recent years.

 

[Shane]

Should be no more than a 6 team playoff in college. There really are never more than 6 teams deserving in any given year as far as Im concerned.

The top two teams would get a bye. Much like the NFL.

 

[AZCB34]

Arkansas State, Tulsa, And Toledo should get a shot while Miami and LSU get stuck at home? I don't think so. I don't mind the idea of a 16 team playoff (would rather have 8 or 12 teams though) but I'd rather there be the BCS conference winners and 10 at-large teams. That way the mid-majors can earn their way in by playing and beating solid competition like Boise, Fresno State, Utah, TCU, and Louisville have done in recent years.

I think the problem will become one of legal proportions when the mid majors sue because they are essentially left out of the process...and quite frankly I agree with them. If you are going to have D1 football be a large entity like it is now, then I think every conference should get their shot much like the college tournament. The reality is, unless scholarship limits are lowered again, it is very unlikely a mid major school would ever win but that doesn't mean they don't dfeserve a shot.

I wrote up a similar playoff scenario last year (I think) and where I would differ from BoiseSuns would be I would not automatically allow for the #2 team in each power conference to get an automatic bid but would rather allow the BCS standings to determine every at large bid. With a very rare exception, the at large bids would always be power teams from the BCS conferences.

 

[boisesuns]

Arkansas State, Tulsa, And Toledo should get a shot while Miami and LSU get stuck at home? I don't think so. I don't mind the idea of a 16 team playoff (would rather have 8 or 12 teams though) but I'd rather there be the BCS conference winners and 10 at-large teams. That way the mid-majors can earn their way in by playing and beating solid competition like Boise, Fresno State, Utah, TCU, and Louisville have done in recent years.

I agree it seems like some of the bigger teams seem to get left out of this system, but if you can't finish in the top two of your conference, you don't deserve a playoff. That is why I gave the larger conferences two bids. Their teams are better usually, but the other conferences deserve at least one representative.

I think the problem will become one of legal proportions when the mid majors sue because they are essentially left out of the process...and quite frankly I agree with them. If you are going to have D1 football be a large entity like it is now, then I think every conference should get their shot much like the college tournament. The reality is, unless scholarship limits are lowered again, it is very unlikely a mid major school would ever win but that doesn't mean they don't dfeserve a shot.

I wrote up a similar playoff scenario last year (I think) and where I would differ from BoiseSuns would be I would not automatically allow for the #2 team in each power conference to get an automatic bid but would rather allow the BCS standings to determine every at large bid. With a very rare exception, the at large bids would always be power teams from the BCS conferences.

I was thinking about different ways to make this up, and there is no perfect way. Basically, you get rewarded for winning your conference in this system. The "smaller schools" get a chance to play teams they normally would not, and get a cut of the big time money to help make their programs more competitive. I agree maybe we could use the BCS standing to determine seedings, but someimtes the BCS standings are a joke somtimes.

Obviously, I want to come up with a situation where teams like Boise can have a shot at the bigger schools. As I said, he rest of the bowl games could still be played, and would have good games, but this system awards conference champs with a chance to play for something, and decide everything on the field, not in the computers.

The way these playoffs matchup, there would be some great games.

Good to hear from you again AZCB34.