College Football Playoffs
Hey, how about a lighter subject!
Here is my dream college football playoff system:
There will still be a BCS-like ranking system, but it will only be used to find the top 8 at large teams who don’t get an automatic bid by winning their conference, and for seeding.
There are 12 Division in Division 1-A football and all division champions would make it. If you don’t agree that the so-called mid-major champions should not get an automatic birth, then they shouldn’t be apart of Division 1-A football.
Conferences like the Big Ten that have a convoluted system and always seem to have co-champions need to work out the kinks to guarantee one champion. They could do this by having a championship game, or by scheduling teams to play every team in the conference instead of the current system of only playing 8 of the 10.
The advantage of winning your conference is getting a bye in the first week. After the 8 at large teams play 8 vs. 1, 2 vs. 7 and so on, those 4 teams will join the 12 conference and all 16 teams be seeded by their regular season BCS-like rankings.
If you keep the regular season to 12 games max, and the max amount of games you can play in the playoffs is 5, that’s 17 games max for 2 teams.
Many of the nay-sayers say this is way too many games for these young men to play. This is silly.
14-18 year olds in the state of Ohio will play a max of 15 games to win the state title. Pro football players will play 19 or 20 games max to win the super bowl, depending on if they win their division, or if they are a wild card. 16 or 17 games to once and for all determine a true champion in college football falls exactly between high school and professional.
A fair system is owed to the fans, and most importantly, it is owed to the football players themselves, who year after year get cheated out of a chance to be called the best.
There are two major obstacles I see to a system similar to this happening.
1) ABC and the BCS.
2) The bowl committees.
In my system, there would be 4+8+4+2+1 games played: 19. There are currently 27 bowls in 26 cities, two played in the citrus bowl in Orlando. All of these sites but 7 could be used. Each game could still be called the rose bowl, FedEx orange bowl, and so on. 16 teams left out that would have made the Insight.com Bowl or the coveted and sought after San Francisco Bowl could still play those games. They would be meaningless, but, how would that be any different than they are now?
Here is my dream college football playoff system:
There will still be a BCS-like ranking system, but it will only be used to find the top 8 at large teams who don’t get an automatic bid by winning their conference, and for seeding.
There are 12 Division in Division 1-A football and all division champions would make it. If you don’t agree that the so-called mid-major champions should not get an automatic birth, then they shouldn’t be apart of Division 1-A football.
Conferences like the Big Ten that have a convoluted system and always seem to have co-champions need to work out the kinks to guarantee one champion. They could do this by having a championship game, or by scheduling teams to play every team in the conference instead of the current system of only playing 8 of the 10.
The advantage of winning your conference is getting a bye in the first week. After the 8 at large teams play 8 vs. 1, 2 vs. 7 and so on, those 4 teams will join the 12 conference and all 16 teams be seeded by their regular season BCS-like rankings.
If you keep the regular season to 12 games max, and the max amount of games you can play in the playoffs is 5, that’s 17 games max for 2 teams.
Many of the nay-sayers say this is way too many games for these young men to play. This is silly.
14-18 year olds in the state of Ohio will play a max of 15 games to win the state title. Pro football players will play 19 or 20 games max to win the super bowl, depending on if they win their division, or if they are a wild card. 16 or 17 games to once and for all determine a true champion in college football falls exactly between high school and professional.
A fair system is owed to the fans, and most importantly, it is owed to the football players themselves, who year after year get cheated out of a chance to be called the best.
There are two major obstacles I see to a system similar to this happening.
1) ABC and the BCS.
2) The bowl committees.
In my system, there would be 4+8+4+2+1 games played: 19. There are currently 27 bowls in 26 cities, two played in the citrus bowl in Orlando. All of these sites but 7 could be used. Each game could still be called the rose bowl, FedEx orange bowl, and so on. 16 teams left out that would have made the Insight.com Bowl or the coveted and sought after San Francisco Bowl could still play those games. They would be meaningless, but, how would that be any different than they are now?
posted by American Patrol | 11:41 AM
1 Comments:
The Big Ten is worth too much money to Northwestern. There would have to be some type of "conference relocation fee" awarded by the Big Ten.
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