JoeyLabasForPresident
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This is a caffeine (or something harder) fueled fever dream, and I enjoyed reading it.
Effed up playoff system
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Fryowa
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What would you do with the regular season. That’s 5 extra games for the two teams that make the finals. You’d have to cut out regular season games unless they went to an NFL schedule. Definitely wouldn’t be time for extra practices etc. like they have now before the CFP starts.
But…these are professional athletes getting paid to play football now (there’s no such thing as “college” FBS football anymore, they aren’t students. They’re pro football players who have to take college classes just because.
I do think there’s some danger in it though. If you have guys who are playing 38% more games, you’re going to see injuries in those extra games that end careers before they get to the NFL. It’s just statistically going to happen no matter what at some point.
Annnnnd....
This is why it's nuts. Too many teams. Not enough weeks. The ONLY way, in my estimation....or at least the hill I'm dying on.....is to maintain the awesomesauce of the conferences. The entire season is the playoffs. A giant 130 team tournament. The conferences are the brackets. Dunno if the Big 10 and SEC are too big. If they are.....
Easy. Do three divisions. Newcomers can go pound sand and have to do what I say.
Legends Division: OSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Indiana, PSU,
Leaders Division: Illinois, Northwestern, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota
Llamas Division:
USC, UCLA, Rutgers, Maryland, Oregon, Washington
Each year, 3 of the Llamas are assigned to either the Leaders or Legends
The Legends/Leaders will play 5 games within their division, one from the opposing Leaders/Legends Division and 3 against a Llama. Or something to that effect.
I could maybe be talked into some sort of cycling thing where you switch two Legends/Leaders team each year, and you then cycle through 6 year periods of being a Legend or a Leader. Only problem is trophy and rivalry games. Indiana/Purdue have to play, Iow-MN and Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Minnesota. Michigan has to play MSU and OSU every year. I'd need a spreadsheet to make sure this would work when they're not in the same division. But all this seems overly complex. It was sure a heck of a lot more sensible and would have been easier without the Llamas.
Maybe the Llamas can just, I dunno.....find a bunch of teams from California, Washington, and Oregon where it would make sense regionally and for them to form their own conference. I mean, I have the perfect name. They're all kind of situated along the Pacific coast. Pick a number, since it doesn't matter. Maybe 6/7. They could be the Pacific....or "Pac" for short. The Pac 6/7.
Have everyone start week 0 (one week earlier). I would also be concerned about the # of games, but cutting a game or 2 from the regular season would cost a ton on money (I would assume) from TV contracts and missing out on home gates/concessions. I suppose you could take the same plan as I proposed but cut down to 6 teams each from B1G, SEC, Big12+ACC, and Group of 6. Give the top 2 teams from each of those groups a bye. Chances are, it would be the teams with a bye that would be going all the way, potentially playing 4 extra games (instead of 5). If a team without a bye makes a run all the way to the championship, gerat story, we will live with that rare occurrence.
I am not saying it is a great plan, but like @SwirlinLingerie mentioned above, it seems so weird that we have a plan that is so different from how it is done at every other level of football. They keep making these iterative solutions, and I think it is time for a radical re-envisioning.
How about this...3 divisions, and they are determined by draft. The top 3 teams by record from the previous year are in 3 different divisions. In February (a dead period for CFB interest), they will have a live draft (snake order) to determine which teams will be in their division the following season.
Can you imagine the intrigue? You have to think about level of competition, travel, maintaining rivalries. And the disrespect teams would claim for being picked early! I love it!
