[Diddle E. Squat]

Here's the ultimate practical playoff system:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/601335/posts


In a nutshell:

My opinion is that the conferences should demand at the next contract that the BCS rating system, not the bowls themselves, determine the 8 participating teams(thus no more of this Notre Dame mystique BS bribing their way into where they don't belong). The bowls can retain the decision of dividing the 8 among themselves. ABC should demand a post-bowls 3-game playoff of the 4 winners. To lure the conferences to the playoff proposal, ABC can sweeten the deal by proposing a 4 team at-large playoff round(preferably the week after the conference championship games, or concurrently if logistics demand) to determine the final two BCS teams(the conference champs being the first 6 to qualify). Money from playoff games to be divided among the 6 participating conferences. There will never be more than 4 non-conference champs(or independents/minor conference members) with stong claims to being legitimate national champion contenders.

Can be fine-tuned and expanded later, but at least we get an 8 or 10 team playoff to start.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Assuming all teams win out next week, here are the results of the current system: Orange-OU/ND, Sugar-UGA/FSU, Fiesta-Miami/OSU, Rose-WSU/Iowa

Results under my simple playoff proposal: In 2 weeks we have USC hosting Texas and Iowa hosting K. State. Excellent games. Assuming home teams win: Orange-OU/FSU, Sugar-UGA/USC Fiesta-Miami/OSU, Rose-WSU/Iowa. Better games, and the top 9 teams all make the playoffs. What team with a legitimate NC shot is left out? None. And any team winning their 3 playoff games(or 4 if they are a non-conference champ) would be totally indisputed as national champions(well, excepting perhaps a tuck-rule incident).