GhostofBTT
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Isn't this a topic for July?
it should be just like the other divisions....16 team...higher seed gets home field until championship game.
Nobody minds it because it is 64 freaking teams and is going higher.
SD, you are better than this. Don't you think if they went to that system that it would favor weaker conferences?
What would stop conferences like the B12 from stripping themselves down to like OU, Texas, OSU, and Tech and then scheduling so each of these teams only played one other of the rest?
What's to stop Boise from dropping their one decent BCS conference game each year?
What is to say that a team ranked 16 from a tougher conference couldn't kill number 8 from a weak conference?
Seriously, you solution just increases the problem exponentially.
it should be just like the other divisions....16 team...higher seed gets home field until championship game.
The Bowl system will never go away as there is to much money tied to them. Which eliminates any kind of 8+ team format as a playoff like that would pretty much ruin the bowls. But something has to be done as teams that finish in the top 4 and finish undefeated should have a chance to prove they are #1 on the field. I think the best solution is a plus one system, play all the bowl games and have 1 more BCS game played 2 weeks after the bowls to determine the champion.
And to quote an excellent post by OldtownHawkFan from another board....
"Good example why there should be a college playoff. I'm tired of the factors outside of the football field that determine who goes to the NC game. If other major sports leagues did determine their championship games the way college football does, no way Green bay would have been in the super bowl. Same goes for the STL Cards this year.
The system should be changed so that all 120 D-1 schools have a chance to play for the NC at the beginning of the season. You win on the football field, you have a chance and don't have to put on a PR campaign to influence a few voters."
And to quote an excellent post by OldtownHawkFan from another board....
"Good example why there should be a college playoff. I'm tired of the factors outside of the football field that determine who goes to the NC game. If other major sports leagues did determine their championship games the way college football does, no way Green bay would have been in the super bowl. Same goes for the STL Cards this year.
The system should be changed so that all 120 D-1 schools have a chance to play for the NC at the beginning of the season. You win on the football field, you have a chance and don't have to put on a PR campaign to influence a few voters."
And yet, many people don't think that StLouis deserves to be in the World Series this year, and didn't deserve to win it in 2006. Two sides of that coin.
A playoff would suck, though.
And to quote an excellent post by OldtownHawkFan from another board....
"Good example why there should be a college playoff. I'm tired of the factors outside of the football field that determine who goes to the NC game. If other major sports leagues did determine their championship games the way college football does, no way Green bay would have been in the super bowl. Same goes for the STL Cards this year.
The system should be changed so that all 120 D-1 schools have a chance to play for the NC at the beginning of the season. You win on the football field, you have a chance and don't have to put on a PR campaign to influence a few voters."
I don't quite follow. A few posts ago, you advocate having a selection committee for a playoff, and now you say you want everything solely decided on the field. Whether it ends with two teams or sixteen, there ends up being a judgment as to whose wins were more valuable. In 2009, we saw a 12-0 BCS conference team left out of the NCG (Cincinnati), along with a 12-0 Boise State team.
The first time the #16 seed wins a playoff after three regular-season losses, there will just be a handful of other 2- and 3-loss teams waiting around for reasons they didn't get in.
I just prefer the system where we still have a Rose Bowl and a champion has a record like 13-0 or 12-1. I think 14-0 is starting to get a little goofy, but the first 14-3 will ruin the game for me.
My thought is a selection committee is one of a couple of options of choosing which teams get into the playoff....not determining who "wins" the NC.
Once the teams are selected, the champion is crowned by demonstrating it on the field.....not by hack voters, a bogus computer, etc.