Your Thoughts on a College Football Playoff
And now I open up the comments to you the readers. I’m sure as you have read our playoff proposal you have either felt like jumping for joy or throwing your computer out the window. Share your thoughts with us! We know if you are a fan of college football then you feel passionately about this subject one way or the other.
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The regular season should have importance, but not to the point that one bad game completely kills your shot. Therefore, this is my in depth proposal.
22 Teams. All 11 Conferences get automatic bids. That’s right, all 11. Even if they are inferior teams, they’ll just lose in the playoffs. There will only be 10 regular season games, your non conference games will be scheduled by the NCAA, not you.
No longer do conference championship games exist. The top 11 are seeded 1-11. 11 Wildcard teams are also chosen. They can be from any conference. These teams will be chosen by number of wins first, and then tiebreakers, but see above there’s no way out of tough match ups.
#1 plays #22, #2 plays #21, and so on all the way to #11 playing #12. The better seed plays at home.
In the second round, the top 5 teams left get a bye while the other 6 duke it out. Say the top 11 all won. Teams 1-5 would sit the second round while #6 hosted against #11, #7 hosted against #10, and #8 hosted against #9.
Say the top seeds won again.
Team #1 would play team #8, team #2 would play team #7 and so on.
Say the top teams won again.
In the semifinals, team #1 would play team #4 and team #2 would play team #3. The winners would play a championship game in some neutral stadium.
Who this pleases
Those who want a more important Regular Season:
Conference Champions get a game at home
Higher Seeded Conference Champs get a better chance of a bye or more home games.
The #1 seed is still important because it means that you get to play the entire tournament at home. Say a 10-0 Gator Team and a 7-3 Seminole team both get into the playoffs. The 7-3 team will be on the road against tough competition, while the Gators will play nearly all, if not all, of the Tourney at home.
Teams outside the BCS have an equal shake at titles
Even losing once will probably lose you homefield advantage.
Those in Favor Of A Less Important Regular Season
The road is tougher, but a loss won’t destroy your season completely.
A good team with a bad game can redeem themselves.
Those who want the schedule not to take too long
The season is only two games longer due to a shortened regular season.
Comments? If you understood all that.
I don’t see any need for any rule about Conference Games in the first round. I’d drop that cheesy gimmick.
Other than that, I don’t see a real issue. I think the Top 11 Seeds should automatically be the Conference Champions, and the 5 at-large bids always play on the road. As for non-conference teams, join one!
take 16 teams how ever the NCAA would like, have all the bowl committes bid for which level of game they get, then the teams get to chose either who OR where they play but not both, all the way until the championship game
Very clever ideas, men, on the need for a playoff. I only disagree on one point, and that is something that has puzzled me for years in basketball. If the top seeds are so good, why are they always matched against the weakest seeds? yes, I know, superiority should have it’s privilege — but isn’t that advantage already accounted for in the ranking and seeding????
I say, if you truly want to make it interesting entertainment AND a determiner of the best football team, schedule the #1 vs. #9, #2 vs. #10, #3 vs. #11, etc….then you’d have someething truly novel and potentially of higher entertainment value.
Papa Clark
Hoosier Rugby fan
A 22 team playoff is crazy. Top teams play, then get a bye, then play again? Weird set up. What anti-playoff people don’t get is that the regular season is already meaningless. They think it has all of this importance when it doesn’t. Five teams went undefeated this year…FIVE! Two of their seasons turned out to be important, the other three, tough luck, they just weren’t undefeated enough it seems.
The current system negates any regular season importance. It is important to do only one thing- win the SEC, Pac 10, Big East, Big 12 or Big Ten. Do that and you can play for a championship. Fail to do it and you get another bowl like anyone else.
I like your arrangement as it closely resembles mine David, but I don’t see a need for 22 teams when 16 will do just fine.