Posted on 01/04/2018 6:48:55 AM PST by blam
Make the Conference Championship Game winners automatically qualify, and that’s a 10-team playoff right there. Add in two at-large teams, and you have a pool of 7 teams, including the 5 Conference Champions and 2 at-large teams. Seed the teams accordingly, and have the 6 and 7 seeds play each other.
The top two seeds get a First Round bye.
Week of December 14: Play-In Game (6 vs 7)
Week of December 21: First Round (3 vs 6/7, 4 vs 5)
New Years’: National Semifinals (3/6/7 vs 2, 4/5 vs 1)
January 8: National Championship
And I would make it, so that the Top Non-Power Five Conference team, automatically qualifies, if they are ranked in the Top 16, so that a team like UCF can get in.
I don’t like byes. With my system, the top eight playoff with seven games - one plays eight, two plays seven, etc. Call it the Elite Eight Teams and Super Seven Bowls - Fiesta, Peach, Citrus, Orange, Cotton, Sugar, Rose.
Too bad the NC won’t be the best team.
Interesting concept. That would mean a total of fifteen playoff games played, or playoff bowls.
One issue would be timing, if the bowls were to be around the holidays, the season would have to start in late September - early October.
I like byes because it puts pressure on a team to win every week, even though their winning their conference is a foregone conclusion.
What is the “best team”? The best team at a given time, or the team that has the best overall body of work over the course of a season?
Too bad the “best” team’s coach left to go to a better program...
The best team at a given time, which is UCF, after they beat Auburn.
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