if college football had playoffs, how should they be set up?

Question

i think that 16 conferences with 8 teams per conference (128). top 2 teams from each conference make playoffs.

Answer 1

You still have your conference games and conference championship games, just like normal. Then have your winner of each conference, not just major conferences like the BSC system, but every conference; ACC, Big10, Big12, Big East, Pac10, SEC, plus, the other 6 conferences; WAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid-American, Independent, and the Conference USA. You have 12 conferences there. Then you can have 4 "at large" teams. Then you'll have 16 teams, then 1 will play 16, 2 will play 15, and so on. Then you'll have 8 teams. 1 will play 8, 2 will play 7, and so on. Then 4 teams. Then the 2 winners will play in the National Championship game and then we will have a TRUE National Champion in Division 1A Football!
This system will only add 2 more games to the normal schedule. But you could always make every team not play their annual games against Helen Keller's School For The Blind and Deaf and take 2 of those games out and make sure they play each team in their conference. Then you won't be adding anymore games, so the same amount of games, plus a Playoff System!!!!!

Answer 2

Top two teams from each conference is too many. Teams going to the final would be playing 4 extra games when most of them already play a 12 or 13 game schedule. There was a time when teams played as few as 9 games in a season and 10 was normal but that was pre cable television and there was not nearly so much programming time to be sold. I'd say start with 4 or maybe 5 (which would feature what would hopefully be a very exciting play in game) and count ourselves lucky to have that. Do it by the coaches vote.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

this is how u do it. u take the winners of all the conferences & put them in a playoff format ( notre dame msg to u: join a conference). then u should have a couple of wild card spots open based on the bcs standings. the 1st round should be comprised of the higher seeded teams playing at home against the lower seeded teams. then the final 8 teams should play in the rose, orange, fiesta, & sugar bowls w/ the national championship game rotating between those four bowls. the money they would make would be through the roof & for the teams that don't make it they could still play in the other bowl games & get paid.. win win

Answer 5

Easy.

In order for a system to work, you MUST incorporate the current Bowls. There is too much money in the bowl games and they hold too much power to try and get them out.

The big (but bogus) arugment against a playoff is that it takes too many weekends up into the new year, so you have to limit the number of weekends to circumvent this. Therefore, 16 is too many, and 4 rounds of playoffs in a 11 game regular season is a bit much. Colleg presidents would shoot that down.

4 teams is too few, so the best answer is an 8 team playoff.

The BCS formula wouldn't even need trashing, so you can satisfy its proponents. Use that formula to tabulate the at-large births and seeding.

The system looks like this, with the Bowls rotating each year to see who gets to be semi final and championship bowl, just like they rotate now.
This example is used assuming seeding for a particlular year, but you get the idea:"

Quarterfinals, last week in December:
Citrus Bowl -- SEC Champ vs. Big Ten Champ
Peach Bowl -- Big 12 Champ vs at large
Cotton bowl -- ACC Champ vs at large
Sugar Bowl -- Big East Champ vs. at large

Semi Finals, 1st week of January:
Rose Bowl: Citrus winner vs Peach winner
Orange Bowl : Cotton vs. Sugar winner

National Championship, second week in January -- same as now:
Fiesta Bowl: Rose vs. Orange winner

Or, you could bump each bowl down a slot and add a separate national title game

This format eliminates the alleged "issues" that college presidents always offer as excuses, allows the bowls to remain intact, and offers the 8 best teams a shot at it all. The bowls don't lose signficance since they now are playoff games, there isn't any more time taken up in the year, and the controversy is virtually eliminated.

Sure, there would be those thinking they should have been the "at large" team chosen, but it is a much harder argument when you are talking the 8th best team in the country instead of the awful system you have now where an undefeated Auburn team gets left out of the title game.
If you are #9 in the 8 team format, that means most certainly that you lost a game, so you would only have yourself to blame.

Answer 6

Go with 8 teams. Take the winners of the 6 major conferences (B10, B12, PAC10, SEC, ACC, & BIg East), and then take the next two highest rated teams from any of the other conferences or independents. Seed them based on ranking, and play the games in December using some of the mid-level bowl games. These bowls would jump at the chance to host a relevant game, and the championship can still be played around New Years Day.

Answer 7

I think they should take the top 8 teams in the final poll & go 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6 & 4 vs 5. If that would have happend last year then Ohio State would have played USC in the national championship last year. Plus teams like Ohio State wouldn't be sitting without playing a game for a month before the national championship. Also a team last year like Michigan who was #2 & loses by 7 points to the #1 team late in the year isn't penalized & is allowed into the playoffs & can prove if they should be there.

Answer 8

With that many teams, why bother playing a regular season? It would kill the preconference games, as teams would only schedule patsies and bench the starters after the first quarter, ala the pros preseason. Also, conferences don't have the same amount of teams. The only thing I would like to see is the championship game determined after the 4 BCS games.