True-False NCAA Playoff means an 8-4 or 7-5 team could be crowned champion?

Question

Wouldn't a playoff system create an even greater problem with 8-4 teams winning?

Answer 1

Eh, it can be true. If it was a 16-team playoff and if the Committee decides to put an 8-4 team into the playoffs then it is possible but they would most likely be facing the #1 seed who would most likely defeat them.

Answer 2

The Playoffs are designed so that teams of equal or similar win/loss ratios all have a chance at the championship insted of using a polling system which can be very biased. It also means that if a team for some reason gets stuck with a really hard season and another gets a soft or easy season the team with a hard season still has a chance at getting to the final game, same way it means that a team that is just as deserving for the final game, like Hawaii, might also get a chance to go even though the bracket they are in is a soft one.

Answer 3

I made up a basketball style playoff, using many of the same statistics that they do. My bracket gives automatic bids to the conference champions as long as they have 9 wins (think of it like a law that needs to be passed by a 2/3 vote rather than by over half; it gives some legitimacy to the mid-major teams getting in, and it works out so that only teams ranked in the BCS get in (top 35)).

Conference Champions:
Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Ohio State, Oklahoma, UCF, BYU, USC, LSU, Hawaii

At-Large Bids, filled out by ranked teams...there are 7 spots remaining:
Georgia, Missouri, Kansas, ASU, Florida, Illinois, Boston College

Now that all the teams are decided, they need to be seeded. I calculated the win percentage for each team. I also calculated the weighted record, which takes into account home vs away. Each home win counts as .6 wins, and an away win counts as 1.4 wins. Home loss is 1.4 loses, and away loss is .06 loses. I got that average, calculating using the total weighted games, meaning even if they played 12 games, the weight may total more than that, so I calculated it out of that rather than 12. For example, Hawaii is 12-0 with a weighted record of 11.2, so their weighted average is out of 11.2. The average of those two percentages is the Average Win Percentage, the first factor in the rankings.

Next I accounted for strength of schedule. Strength of Schedule rating is x/119, where x is the team's SOS; 119/119 for Hawaii for example.

I also took into account the BCS poll. The Poll Rating was calculated as x/35...Hawaii: 10/35=.29

So with all that, the final rating is calculated as:
Average Percentage - Strength Rating - Poll Rating

Ohio State .90 - .63 - .03 = .24
LSU .845 - .48 - .05 = .315
VT .845 - .44 - .09 = .315
Oklahoma .87 - .55 - .11 = .21
Georgia .82 - .37 - .14 = .31
Missouri .86 - .32 - .17 = .37
USC .83 - .51 - .20 = .12
Kansas .90 - .89 - .23 = -.22
WVU .83 - .50 - .26 = .07
Hawaii 1.0 - 1.0 - .29 = -.29
ASU .82 - .49 - .31 = .02
Florida .75 - .34 - .34 = .07
Illinois .76 - .45 - .37 = -.06
BC .76 - .33 - .40 = .03
BYU .825 - .87 - .49 = -.535
UCF .745 - .98 - .86 = -1.095

So using the Final Rating to seed the teams, the seeding is:
1 Missouri
2 LSU (tiebreaker with head-to-head win over VT)
3 Virginia Tech
4 Georgia
5 Ohio State
6 Oklahoma
7 USC
8 West Virginia
9 Florida
10 Boston College
11 Arizona State
12 Illinois
13 Kansas
14 Hawaii
15 Brigham Young
16 Central Florida

Let me know what you think...

Answer 4

Yes. For example say there were only 2 teams and your 12 games. You could have one thats 12-0 and one thats 0 -12. Or 6 and 6 and 6 and 6. Or 7-5 and 5-7. So if every team in the NCAA has an average or even year, thats what you get.

Answer 5

Yes why not?? If 7-5 teams can beat a bunch of 10+ winning teams and get a championship, Don't they deserve to be the best... It's playoff and it's one and done game.. Look it will be just like NFL playoff, you don't have to have good standing to be successful in playoff.. If a low seeded team can be Super Bowl champ, why can't lower-ranked team be BCS champ?

Answer 6

Depends on how many teams get in.

8 teams should qualify

1st Round:
Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Orange bowl
Fiesta Bowl

Rose plays Fiesta winner
Sugar plays Orange Winner

Winners play on neutral site.

Keep ALL other bowl games for schools and fans, traditions are set in stone, BCS Standings become everything, and the top teams get thier shot. Mid-major non BCS schools, if good enough, get a shot as well.

This is the best solution.

Answer 7

If you had a 16 team playoff it might happen. If you stuck to 8 teams you most likely would not get to teams with those records. It would create contreversy but at least everything would be settled on the field.

Answer 8

false if they set it up with only the confrence champs and csome at large bids then 8-4 teams more then likely wont make the playoff's

Answer 9

false the system would include a 4 loss team

Answer 10

Hey...Pittsburgh was the 6th seed in the playoffs and won the Super Bowl...does it really matter?