You have to do away with fixed schedules and instead make the entire season into playoffs.
Hey, they beat Duke.
The first thing that needs to start happening is to stop giving teams the same credit for winning overtime games as winning in regulation. Perhaps there needs to be a points system:
3 points for regulation win
2 points for overtime win
1 point for overtime loss
Then simply divide the number of points versus number of games played. And note, Hawaii has one overtime win, so they would not be perfect under this system. But this would be used as the tie-breaker instead of pure won-loss record.
Rule #1 for any playoff system has to include that you have to win your conference to be in any college football playoff.
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Do not forget the Big East and other conferences.
You got a good idea in itself. Also we may have to try out what the college basketball does in March, the famous bracket system.
You could start with an &1 system. Take the top 2 Bowls and let the winners play. At least that way you could have the top 4 selected.
Go Wounded Ducks
How does Division I-AA do their playoffs?
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.
But whatever ideas, the BCS as we know of it now is becoming a joke, just look at this wild and crazy season.
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.
The BCS system will really look bad if Missouri and W Virgina both lose (unlikely, since W Virginia plays at home against Pitt, but perhaps the #2 curse will continue). In that case, the system will let Ohio State in, since they are currently in #3. The other team has to be a two-loss team. Georgia probably can’t go, since they didn’t make the SEC championship. If LSU beats Tennessee, they’ll probably get the nod. Oklahoma fans will be bitter in that case, but that’s the breaks. In that case, USC (assuming they get by UCLA this time and find their way to the Rose Bowl) doesn’t get to play Ohio State or LSU. Too bad, really.
I suspect it would be Michigan.
Top 7 bowl games.
Jan, 1 four games
Jan. 8 two games.
Jan. 15 Championship game.
Every 7th year a major bowl would host the National Championship game.
BUT every year, each major bowl would host at least a playoff game.
Want more teams in? Eliminate the 11th and/or 12th game and conference championship games and expand the field to the lesser bowl games as playoff games.
Eliminating the 11th/12th game and conference championship would expand the field to 32 teams and would have a total of 31 bowl games become part of the playoffs.
Too much to ask of young players? It's what they are used to in high school playoffs. It's what every other Division in college football is used to playing.
Miss too much school? Are BCS school athletes that much dumber than the other divisions that all have playoffs? If school administrators are that concerned for their scholar athletes, where is that concern for the other sports?
Even at 32 teams, with the elimination of the 11th/12th and conference championship games it would be only one more game than the National Champion has played in the past regular season/conference championship/BCS format.
Never get the bowls to agree? Now that there is a "National Championship" game, the bowls lose a lot of their national appeal. Best way to get it back? Make the games mean something.
Worried about eliminating the 11th/12th game and conference championship game and not having as many games to pad the bottom line? More money to be made by going through the playoffs than by scheduling East Woeful State for a home game 70-0 blowout.
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BCS Conferences: ACC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 10, SEC
Non-BCS Conferences: Mac, Wac, MWC, C-Usa, Sun Belt
From these you can have 3 possible Playoff Scenarios -- all scenarios also require all teams to be in a conference.
8 TEAM PLAYOFF : 6 BCS Conference Champs, 2 Highest ranked Non-BCS Conf Champs.
11 Team Playoff : All 11 Conference Champions. Seed teams 1-11. 1-5 get first round Bye, 6-11 play for final 3 spots (6 vs 11, 7 vs 10, 8 vs 9)
16 Team Playoff : All 11 Conference Champs, 5 AT LARGE teams.
16 team playoff and 11 team playoff first round games are played at the HOME FIELD of the top seeded teams.
Once you are down to 8 teams the games are played at Current Bowl sites : Rose, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar, Cotton, Capitol One, Outback. Championship and Semi-Final games will ALWAYS be at the 4 BCS Bowl sites. The PREVIOUS Championship Site will host a QUARTERFINAL game the next season with the Cotton, Capitol One, and Outback sites.
Example (Last season the Fiesta hosted the NC game). So this season would be Q-FINALS : Fiesta, Cotton, Cap one, Outback. S-final : Rose, Orange. Championship : Sugar Bowl. Next year the Sugar would host a Q-Final game, Fiesta would host a S-Final game and either the Rose or Orange would host the Championship.
The #1 and #2 team from each conference (or division winers in certain conferences) with a couple of wild cards for any Div-1 tem (independents or a #3 division seed with a good record) 12 conferences get you to 24 teams + 8 wiled card bids gets most of the top 30 in. 32 teams is five rounds of the playoffs with each game being a bowl game. The ‘BCS’ bowls can have the top spots. 5 weeks starting thanks giving day weekend puts the national championship on new years day..
The best playoff scenario is a 16 team bracket that takes the 8 conference champs and 8 at-large teams(the at-large teams are there to keep the so-called BCS schools happy)
The 8 at-large teams get in based on their Sagarin Rankings, this will keep the idot East Coast biased writers out of it. Seed the brackets using the same rankings. This is the only equitable way to do it.