Re: a playoff, I’d rather have the # 5 or # 9 team pissed off than the # 3 team.
Division 1A and 2 and 3 manage to handle playoffs. I do like the bowls cause it’s just more football to watch, even though many are stupid and feature crappy teams with no business in the postseason
But I have a different very radical idea, if you love tradition you’ll hate it. Get rid of the current conferences. They are silly anyway, Big “East” is adding Boise State and SAN DIEGO State. Big ten has 12, Big 12 has 10. Have good teams play only other good teams. Have relegation and promotion like they do with professional soccer in Europe. Then the regular season would be the playoffs and there would be no pointless games like LSU versus LA Tech or whatever. Something similar could be accomplished less radically by the good conferences kicking out their dreg teams and adding better teams in their place.
I have a real radical idea, inspired by English soccer.
Have tiers of 13 teams each...the top level is the “Premier League”, each team plays the other 12 teams in their level (6 home, 6 away games), then the top four teams in each level, play the semi-finals and finals.....and the bottom four teams in each level get relegated next season, and the top four teams get promoted. Each level will have a champion. Of course the one problem is that levels will be widely dispersed throughout the country and travel costs could be quite prohibitive.
I see we did think alike...
And I do see eventually the big programs breaking away from the NCAA, and negotiating their own television contracts.
But I have a different very radical idea, if you love tradition you’ll hate it. Get rid of the current conferences. They are silly anyway, Big “East” is adding Boise State and SAN DIEGO State. Big ten has 12, Big 12 has 10.
This would be fine as long as there is enough flex in the schedule to accomodate true legacy matchups.
RE: Playoffs, are DII Football and DI really the same game in terms of prep, money, corruption? So much for being a student athlete if you try that in DI.