No, it's not the Beneficent Clown Posse. It's the proposed Bowl Championship Playoff. A way for the BCS and a playoff to co-exist.
We all pretty much know there's never going to be a straight up NFL-like single elimination playoff in College Football. Too many "suits" don't like the idea. So, what I'm serving up is the same idea, with a bit of a twist, that many people have come up with also. Why not have both. All the Bowls, BCS included, with a playoff built in.
It goes like this: All bowl games, except for the BCS(BCP) bowls, are played with all FBS teams. The top six teams after those bowl games qualify for the BCP or the playoff.(You would have to win a bowl game to be considered.)
Top two seeds get a bye to the Rose and Fiesta Bowl respectively. The top seed get to play inthe Rose Bowl. THe four remaining will play in the Sugar and Orange bowl. So, you have teams A, B, C, D, E, and F. A and B are the top seeds.
C and F will play in the Sugar. D and E will have it out in the Orange Bowl. The worst seed remaining after that, will play the top seed(team A) in the Rose Bowl.
The winners of the Rose and Fiesta will play in the National Championship Game.
In this scenerio, everyone wins. All the bowl games are in tact and there is a playoff. Sure, the regular season will be slighty less important game-to-game, but not by that much since you will still have to have a good enough record and standing to become a top six team after the non-BCP bowl games are played. It would effectively be a little more important NFL regular season and I'm pretty sure people have interest in the NFL regular season. Students will still fill stadiums and the TV ratings will still be huge.
No one can complain about this. This system fits the interests of conferences, schools, the BCS, the NCAA, the networks, the tradition and the fans. THe only arguement agaisnt it would be the student-atheletes at a few schools would have to play more games, but that should be up to the athletes, wether they want to do that or not. Have each football player in the FBS vote on it...If it passes, then thats not an issue anymore.
Of course, you may be saying, well there will still be mass chaos, arguement, and outrage about who the top 6 teams should be after the nonBCP bowls are played, but thats another reason why this is perfect. We still have the interest via outrage and message board will never be neglected, ESPN shows can still argue who got snubbed and it's fun that way also.
Nothing is lost, only gained. We now get an exciting new format and at the end of the day we will better know who the real champion of the NCAA football season is.
Dont get me wrong, I know this will most likely never happen, since the NCAA and conference "suits" are afraid to change anything for fear it would mess with income, tradition, and ratings. However, it is the best thing for college football in my opinion and even thinking about it is worth a smile in my eyes.
As we stand right now, there are pro BCS people and pro playoff people...Whats the problem with compromising. BCS+playoff=BCP
I know "if it's broke don't fix it", the arguement given because its already a very popular sport and fans should be happy with what they already have, but there always room to be better and if your a multi-billion dollar business, why not at least try for better. NCAA's better can be better than my better and then NIKE's Oregon Duck's can sparq train thier way into awesome and I know none of this makes sense, but I still feel like typing so get over it.
At the end of the day, College Football is nothing without its fans, so why not listen to the fans and at least give it a one year trial. If it doesnt work out for you "suit" types then by all means, BCS my face off.
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The TRUE way to settle this once and for all, is to open up this playoff deal to 1-AA teams as well as 1-A. MY way, involves 32 teams...16 from 1-A, 16 from 1-AA.
You can do it in the month of December, just like March Madness with regionals and all (played in NFL stadiums). Better still, just eliminate this 1-A/1-AA crap and make it ALL Division 1.
Just a thought...
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Yeah, thats impossible. Suits would never go for it. At least my proposal is somewhat possible for the suits, the fans, the schools, and the conferences to agree on. THe biggest reason why your way wont happen: 32 team playoff would mean too may games each year for the teams that make the playoff. Although it will never happen, your way is very interesting and I would like it better than the current system. Taking two teams from hundreds and just assuming they are the two best teams and saying play for the championship is the dumbest thing in sports...it certainly needs to be fixed but probably never will be.
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I think it should be 4 teams, 8 at the most, because if you had to play one of the nations top team 4 weeks in a row everyone would be so beat up you wouldn't necisarily get to see who the better team is, just who had an esier road
*LSU*
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How would any team have an eaiser road if the top 6 teams in the nation played off for the championship. Each team will have a tough road. It will be even. Sure, the top seed might get a smaller school every four years or so if that often, but thats the benefit of being the number one team. If you're the top ranked team after 12-13 games, you deserve to the easier matchup.
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well if we're going with 1-aa, bring d2, d3, naia, and juco....
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WE're not going 1-AA...which by the way is called FCS now, not D-1 AA. There has been some talk about letting the FCS teams in bowl games, but that could only drive down ratings, so theres no way that will actually happen.
DCforkIN'em
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it was sarcasm...I know the new namings, but I think they sound so stupid, football sub article line 3.446.823 sub divsion of blah blah blah, whats so bad with 1AA
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Good scenario.
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Interesting idea. It's very NCAA tournament esque and that's what's good about it.
badgerfan07 back in…
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I agree, I didnt have any problem with A and AA. I Think it was a situation of not wanting to belittle the I-AA teams by calling them AA. But who knows.
DCforkIN'em
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I'm srry I just think that if you play 4 games against top teams in the nation your gonna get beat up so bad that when you finaly get to the championship you'll be so banged up from the first 4 you won't be seeing the best effort on the part of both teams, not because thier lazy, but becuase they are exausted.
*LSU*
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In my system, the most "extra" games a team would have to play is 3. The only way you would have three extra games is if you are a 3, 4, 5, or 6 seed and you get to the championship game. Which will be an abberation when it does happen. Most of the time, teams will only play one or two extra games. Big deal... One or two extra games? You think the players will have a problem with that? No. Sure there wil be extra injuries but you also have to take into consideration how many players will be back healthy for their team again after already being injured earlier. If they didnt have the extra games, they wouldnt have been able to play. So, teams will likely lose some and gain some. A high impact player has just as good of a chance getting injured for the year right before a bowl game as he would right before the BCP...I dont think that arguement is credible. Thats like saying having the NFL playoffs is pointless, because by the time we get to the super bowl, guys will be so tired and banged up that the best team wont win.
A truely great team should have great depth and if someone gets injured or banged up there should be capable backups to come in and pick right up where they left off. there are 60+ players on a team, not just 22. Injuries are a part of the game.
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also I think the 32 team format would tak away from the regular season
*LSU*
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32 team format would be a terrible idea for everyone involved. I dont know what that guy was thinkin...
DCforkIN'em
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This won't work. For a start, it's clear that most bowl games are consolation prizes for managing to not go .500 or worse for a season record and are useful for school prestige, which is important come recruitment time. But let's face it: there is no way the winner of, for example, the Meineke Car Care Bowl is ever going to deserve a spot in the top three (or four) bowl games to qualify for the national championship game, because a team playing in one of those consolation games is nowhere near up to the quality level of any of the Top 10. Case in point: Hawaii, which went undefeated last year as opposed to LSU and Ohio St., which had losses on their records. Hawaii, however, rode to its record beating a bunch of creampuffs in that joke of a conference that is the WAC and went on to prove how unqualified it was for championship consideration by getting stomped on by a very angry Georgia team in the Fiesta Bowl.
I'm dubious about the entire idea of a "real" national champion in college football given how many teams there are in Division 1A. Football is a very punishing game, and given the sheer number of conferences and teams, any true playoff scheme would both extend the college season by a couple of months and result in two very banged-up teams struggling in the championship, so I don't see what's proven. This leaves it down to a theoretical or, as Bo Schembeckler once phrased it, a "mythical" national championship, which is what we've basically had all these decades, and the BCS has done nothing to really solve that issue.
BUT, if there has to be some attempt at a "real" championship and one which doesn't jettison the current bowl setup ???which the schools will never agree to for financial and recruiting reasons??? the only thing is to simply concede most of the bowls as consolation games, seed the top eight teams by record and a mathematically-defined quality point system (such as this one which seems to work really well: http://qualitychampions.googlepages.com/qualitychampionsexplained) in four games: the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Sun Bowls. The winners of those contests advance to the Orange and Fiesta Bowls. Finally, the two winners from those bowls advance to the BCS National Championship Bowl.
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