how would you construct a div 1a playoff system?

Question

the top 10 teams in the bcs poll and conference champions fight it out. and all the other teams that did have a pretty good season but did not quite make the cut. stil play in the left over bowls

Answer 1

Simple. Take the top 8 BCS teams. Seed them 1-8. Play 'em 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, etc...Let the top 4 seeds host the first round in mid-December. Then incorporate major bowls into the 2 semifinal games and the final game. Rotate the semifinal and final games among 5 or 6 major bowls.

Still let the non-playoff teams play in traditional bowls. Play the semi's and championship game after all other bowls are completed.

Yeah, you would still have folks sitting at #9 and #10 crying about not getting a shot. But that isn't unlike bubble teams getting shut out of the NCAA basketball tournament. The crying would pretty much end once the games kicked off.

Answer 2

Have every conference champion even the small schools have a lock in the playoffs. Then a committee like in NCAA Basketball choose at least one or two teams from each conference to play in bowl games while the conference champions also play each other. So one bracket would have the Conference champs and another conference would have the non-conference champs. And then the conference champ plays the winner of the loser bracket for the National Championship.

Answer 3

conference champs in the big six conferences 16 teams in the playoff. regular season 10 games so no excuse for it being to many games. the other teams can play in the bowls but the playoffs would generate more money anyways. first round pays the least and get more for each additional round. Tv Coverage would pay a ton for the rights to it.