After watching the BCS Championship Game last night, I started to wonder what it would be like to watch a Florida - USC showdown ! So I ask you, are you okay with the current format or would you like a playoff ??? I think an 8 team playoff is fair and doable. In my system, the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, and Orange Bowls could be the first round. Then play a sort of Final Four double header and lasty the championship game. This system doesn't prolong the season and the bowl people still get there money. What are your thoughts ???
Although 8 keeps coming up as the magic number, there are actually 11 conferences in division 1-A football (now known as division I FBS.) So for the sake of equal opprotunities for everyone, the 11 conference champs should get "automatic" bids and there should be 5 at large bids, which would slove 2 problems at once. The first problem is the most obvious. It gives every school a crack at the national championship. Win your conference...youre in! The second problem is a problem, but people havent noticed it as of much. Have you noticed that in college basketball during the regular season, the top teams try to play each other as much as possible, but the top teams in college football try to avoid each other as muich as possible during the regular season? Its because in college basketball, teams know that a tough nonconference schedule actually helps them come tournament invitation time. So if the five at large bids in a field of 16 is based on a combination of toughness of schedule, non-conference toughness of schedule, ranking, etc, top teams will play each other in order to boost their chances of an at large bid. So, first they need to shorten the regular season and have the first round games at the end of the regular season (to eliminate the pretenders and make them available for the "other" bowl games.) Then the remaining 8 play in the sugar, orange, rose, and fiesta bowl, and then have the semi-final games and final game at different sites, allowing non-traditional sites to host games and not give florida and california schools such a decided advantage come championship game time. (The championship game last nite was like a home game for florida.)
I'm for a playoff system... I am an OU fan...major fan in fact, last night was awful. The BCS is flawed and pretty much everyone knows that. I really didn't like how the three way tie in the Big XII south was determined by BCS rankings...it caused many problems. Point differential, common opponents, and non conference schedule should have been used instead. I really couldn't say how to work the playoff system, I'm not that great with that type of stuff. I can see how a playoff system would put the best two teams at the end of the season in the national championship game and it could avoid all this mess/speculation about how this team could have played against that team etc.:smt068 BCS system
I favor a playoff system, because we keep getting these weak ass matchups in the championship game. Ohio State or any of the Big Ten schools can't seem to beat anyone in the SEC, but I think USC can. It should've been USC/Florida last night.
It is flawed! Utah is undefeated and not get into the Bowl. There had to be a playoff system like the NFL. I love bowls since I'm a NC State fan but,there had to be a real winner in collage football.
Playoff system!!!! The BCS is crap. It doesn't prove who the best team it in any way. The only thing is does is give teams an extra game to play. I like the idea of a 16-team playoff. It would have the winners of every conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision (I-AA), of which there are 11, and combine those with 5 at-large bids. The playoff would not take away from the regular season at all, because the surest way to make the playoffs would be to win one's conference. Just think of the excitement there would be to finally have a true national champion
I actually this that a playoff is most definitely the most fair and best way to determine a champion, and I for one would welcome an all inclusive 16 team tournament. The only problem I would have is that the teams that come from conferences with championship games have the disadvantage of having played that extra week. Found this on another forums a complete breakdown Venues Locations for games are as follows: Round of 16: Nearest bowl site of the higher seed Quarterfinals (In Order): Sugar, Cotton, Gator, Peach Semifinals (In Order): Rose, Fiesta National Championship Final: Orange In the quarters, the BCS bowl comes first. Since the Sugar Bowl was last year's national championship game, it goes back to the back and and works its way back up. So with this format that it goes back to the quarterfinals. The highest seed goes to the Sugar Bowl, second highest to the Cotton Bowl and down the line. Semifinals the same way with the Rose Bowl (next year's title game) to the highest seed, then Rose. Semifinal winners play for the national championship in the Orange Bowl. Payouts IRound of 16: Loser - $300,000 / Winner - $500,000 Quarterfinals: Loser - $750,000 / Winner - $1,500,000 Semifinals: Loser - $2,500,000 / Winner -$5,000,000 National Championship Final: Loser - $5,000,000 / Champion - $10,000,000 Maxiumum Total: $17,000,000 Brackets (#): Seeds Conference Champions (Automatic Bids) Atlantic Coast: Virginia Tech (13) Big East: Cincinatti (12) Big Ten: Penn State (8) Big XII: Oklahoma (1) Conference USA: East Carolina (15) Mid-American: Buffalo (16) Mountain West: Utah (6) Pac-10: Southern California (5) Southeastern: Florida (2) Sun Belt: Troy (14) Western Athletic: Boise State (9) At-Large Bids Texas (3) Alabama (4) Texas Tech (7) Ohio State (10) TCU (11) Round of 16 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas (16) Buffalo (1) Oklahoma GM/Ford Motor City Bowl Detroit, Michigan (9) Boise State (8) Penn State Pacific Life Holiday Bowl San Diego, California (12) Cincinatti (5) Southern California PapaJohns.com Bowl Birmingham, Alabama (13) Virginia Tech (4) Alabama Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl Las Vegas, Nevada (11) TCU (6) Utah Valero Alamo Bowl San Antonio, Texas (14) Troy (3) Texas Texas Bowl Houston, Texas (10) Ohio State (7) Texas Tech Capital One Bowl Orlando, Florida (15) East Carolina (2) Florida
