Posted on 11/25/2007 5:03:26 PM PST by Perdogg
This time of year, we hear a lot complaining from sports writers about the BCS. There should be a holiday for this. Last night I also heard commentators complaining about the College overtime. So, since college football is broken, how do we have an equitable playoff system that objectively seeds the teams?
If we seed the BCS teams, then it's still not really fair. It would only enriched the big programs.
How do we make a college football playoff fair, that would not give more power to the sports writer? If they had the power, Notre Dame would be in it every year.
The overtime problem is easy. Play an extra quarter and at the end the of quarter (15:00 minutes), the team with most points wins. If not, the game ends in tie.
Here's an example of a (UNC Tarheels) schedule you would likely to see under a playoff system:
(SEC West V ACC Coastal) @LSU Auburn @Arkansas Miss. State @Alabama Ole Miss
ACC Schedule
Virginia Tech @Virginia Georgia Tech @Miami Duke
1 parity game (ACC Coastal V Big XII North)
@Kansas State (4th Big XII North)
Conference Championship game.
Then the playoff system would be seeded based on won/loss records of the Conference champions. Any ties in records would be based on conference v conference play, or common opponents. Then the 8 team playoff system would take place, ending with the championship game the week before the Super Bowl.
The regular season would start in late August and end the week after Thanksgiving. No more open dates, and Notre Dame would have to join a football conference or miss out.
Any ideas?
Yes the Big Ten would need to add a team (say maybe ND). As I understand you have to have 12 teams to have a championship game for your conference.
The idea means having the number of teams that would be placed in bowls to have a meet up via a bracket system, a modified version of the 64 teams in the March bracket system.
Of course there are some who would say the Big Ten does have a conference championship game. It’s called the Ohio State-Michigan game. LOL!
I think folks in Madison and Champaign would beg to differ.
I dont know. Those Oregon cheerleaders were pretty impressive.
The blond would give Oregon 2 points.
Just a crazy thought. I would like to see a soccer game played with an American football. Boing, boing, boing.
Maybe three points.
But whatever ideas, the BCS as we know of it now is becoming a joke, just look at this wild and crazy season.
I don’t think they have women that good lookin’ in Oregon. They must have bused those women in from Canada. LOL!
Um, now what was the topic of this thread again?
Something about points, I think.
I think I’d like to see us go back to the old bowl system with just one extra national championship game for the top 2 rated teams after the bowl matchups.
1) All conferences limit themselves to eleven games per season.
2) All conference with ten or twelve teams have a 12th game conference championship game.
3) Seed six conference champions plus two at-large teams into an eight-team two-tier playoff with seven bowl games becoming playoff games.
This would be a longer-term project. For the 2008-2010 seasons, go to a Plus One format matching BCS #1 vs #4 and #2 vs #3, then a final championship game.
Your system sounds reasonable for the longer term. The top 4 BCS right now, however, would include #4 Georgia, and they are in second place in the SEC East. (I think the poll voters are giving the SEC credit they won’t afford to the Pac-10.)
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