Use the BCS to seed teams in a 16-team playoff. You seed them like they do for the NCAA basketball tournament.
That would give you four rounds, consisting of 15 games.
You use 15 of the current bowls, thus applying some meaning to some otherwise meaningless bowls. Suddenly, even people attending the Outback Bowl could be watching the eventual national champion; that ain't gonna happen now.
Since it'd take four weeks, you hold the first round on New Year's Day, then follow on the next two Saturdays, take a week off, then hold your championship on the weekend that the NFL takes off between its conference championships and Super Bowl. (You'd have the weekend all to yourself.)
Apply that formula to this year's 1-16 BCS teams and you'll see some pretty interesting matchups.
2006-11-29 06:47:51 · 13 answers · asked by Lawn Jockey 4 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Sounds good to me... Anything would be better than the present system...
2006-11-29 06:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by whidd2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many games! If you would do a play off it would have to be a 4 or 6 team play off, and it would have to begin in December. Some of these guys are 18 years old their last season in High School ended in early November and they likely only played 12 games all year long you cannot expect them to play 16 or 17 games in college a pro team that doesn't make the playoffs only plays 16. I am on the fence for a play off, but 16 teams is too many.
7 Wisconsin
8 Boise State
9 Arkansas
10 Notre Dame
11 Auburn
12 Oklahoma
13 Rutgers
14 Virginia Tech
15 West Virginia
16 Tennessee
Who on this list do you believe is worthy of a National Championship chance?
I think a 6 team playoff may be pushing it even that would give number 1 and 2 first round bye games.
In a year like this I would love to see USC play Michigan and the winner plays Ohio State, but I think that USC vs OSU is the best choice!
IMHO the BCS has worked so far this year!
2006-11-29 06:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by Scott M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your idea does not solve the problem we have today. That is wich teams get a shot. 16 teams means that you would have to choose three or four teams out of the 15 that ended the season with 3 losses. Who's in and who's out? It would also allow a two or three loss team a shot at a national title if they get a draw that favors them. So non conference schedules for top ten teams would be filled with cream puffs in hopes of landing a seeding against a bad team.
The real answer is for the NCAA to take over non conference scheduling. The current BCS program has problems, because some teams play weaker schedules than others. E.G. the big East. Eliminating this would allow the best teams to emerge.
All they need to do is make every team that finishes in the top ten one year play one game against another top ten team, and one against a top twenty team. Each top twenty team would be required to schedule a top ten opponent from the prior year. This gives every team a chance to prove themselves before the conferece games begin. The head to head matchups would also answer questions raised by similar records. It also leaves the bowl games in tact, without adding games to the season.
As much as I hate to admit it, the BCS has done a good job of getting the top teams together compared to what we had before. Scheduling would eliminate the problems it has had.
2006-11-29 07:11:45 · answer #3 · answered by Ron B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there is one main flaw i your proposed playoff system. If you use that system then the College schedule would be longer than the NFL. Some teams already play 13 & 14 games a year. If you add 4 weeks that could mean 18 games (potentially).
I think the most popular system of change is having the top 4 play 2 playoff games. That way you get only 1 more game on the college system.
2006-11-29 06:53:10 · answer #4 · answered by Drew P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree. Its not fair to a team like Boise State because they did everything they could, didn't lose one game, and its unfair to that team to not have a chance at the national title just because their schedule is weak.
I think that your overall idea is very good having the championship when the NFL doesn't have any games.
One Suggestion is that some of the playoff games be played on Fridays since high school football is over and that way you can see most of the games.
2006-11-29 07:13:02 · answer #5 · answered by Joe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds good but you could start the tournament a week or two sooner and include more teams. Since the season ends right around the beginning of December you could start the playoffs on a Saturday around 15th or so of December. That way you would have 2 extra weeks for 2 extra rounds which could include more teams.
2006-11-29 07:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by imsmartkid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a pretty sound Idea, but it would be too many games, or potentially too many games. I dont think playing 16 games would be too much for the college player.. but potentially 18 is too much. The Seeding Idea is good, using the AP or Coaches polls, not those Freegin computers in the BCS.. because that way even the Boise States would/could get in. The Top 12, regardless of conference theyre in would get seeded.. i like it. Its just too many games, tweek that and ild like it alot more.
2006-11-29 07:19:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good idea. A problem is if you have 16 teams the number 17 team will ***** and moan. If you have 4 teams the number 5 team will ***** and moan. I think a playoff format using conference champions makes much more sense.
2006-11-29 06:58:42 · answer #8 · answered by alfiore1 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would work better with an 8 team playooff.
2006-11-29 06:57:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are right.that would be nice to see.,but bowl games is americas past time. I like to see the different confrenence match ups in the bowl games.
2006-11-29 07:22:57 · answer #10 · answered by Thomas Crown 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋