We currently have a top 25 generated by the BCS on a weekly basis after week six of the perspective college football year. I propose that the poll is used to seeding the playoff teams for the playoff. Here are the only exeptions to this:
1. Every Conference will be given a berth to the playoffs regardless of record (Includes Sun Belt, MAC, WAC, MWC, Con USA). If the conference winner is not in the BCS rankings, they will be added by taking out the bottom teams on the BCS standings.
2. Major Independants will only be given a berth if their record is 9-3 or better. The same rule applies with the conference teams as how they will be added into the playoffs.
There will be 24 teams in the playoffs which will start Thanksgiving Weekend. The Top 8 teams will be awarded a bye and the teams 9-16 will play their first game on their home field. 17-24 will play their first game on the road and will be matched up as follows, 16vs17, 15vs18, 14vs19 and so on.The following week, the team with worst ranking that wins its first playoff game will face the number one team. For example, if number 24 beats number 9 in its playoff game, number 24 would play number one. This rule will apply for the second ranked team playing the second worst team that won their playoff game and so on and so on. Teams one through eight will play this game at home.
With their only being 8 teams left after week two of the playoffs, they will now move to a nuetral site to play the remaining games. These four neutral sites will change each year much like the sites of March Madness change on a yearly basis.
With the field being narrowed down to four teams, here is where the four major bowl games come into play. The Rose Bowl will always have to be played on or around the 1st of January. With that said, The Rose Bowl will always be rewarded the National Championship game(only once every four years) or the runners up game (three years in a row). The Fiesta, Sugar and Orange Bowl will have to become part of a round robin that will allow their bowl to host the National Championship Game every four years. The only down side to this is that the other three bowls will only have a chance to host the runners up game once in a sixteen year period. The National Championship game will always be played after January 1st, allowing all the other bowl games to be played. The other down side to this is that two of the bowls will be played earlier than January 1st. Tradition will be broken but a playoff will be set and in order to crown a true National Champion.
Every bowl that exists will still be played as normal. Teams who lose in the early rounds of the playoffs and fail to make it to the Final Four will be rewarded a bowl game to play in. This will not deminish the history of the college bowl games.
This is a proposed playoff system that I feel would be a fair and exciting way to finally award a true National Champion in college football. Tell me what you think of the system or why it's flawed or how it could be made even better.
I am feed up with the would of.....should of..........could of's of College Football. This year will be another year that will crown a supposed National Champion and everyone and their dog will be screaming bloody murder that their team was left out.
People, the time is now for College Football to realize a playoff is inevitable. This year especially, due to the lack of a dominate team. I know Ohio State went 11-1 and Hawaii went 12-0 and there are a plethera of teams with only 2 loses and everyone can plead their case of why their team should be in the National Championship. How will we really know if LSU and Ohio State are the two best teams in College Football? They were awarded that thanks to a computer generated poll. The key point here is that a computer generated our National Championship Game. I am outraged that the decision is not decided on the field of play.
I still to this day will not follow College Football because it has no playoff. March Madness is followed like crazy due to the opportunity to crown a champ by playing it out. College Football needs to due the same. I hope that we, the fans of the game, will someday see a true National Champion crowned through a playoff that is fair and unbiased like March Madness is for College Basketball.
