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i like that idea

http://www.fannation.com/blogs/post/85478

This is how it should be done.

Inviting all those scrub teams wouldn't make for good football.

16 team tournament! This isn't a basketball tournament or the NHL/NBA playoffs when the season are long and grueling. A 16 team tournament team will punish the truly elite teams that worked their butts off to go unscaved. There are also classes and exams that student athletes have to deal with it. A 4 or 6 team playoff system would be most ideal.

Boo hoo.....if you can't survive a few playoff rounds (2 or 3 at least) you don't deserve to be called National Champs.

No disrespect to Schwartzy or anyone else reading this, but do you honestly think you're going to come up with something the NCAA has not considered up to this point? Schwartzy, your system doesn't work on several levels you didn't mention at all. I'd like to hear how you would successfully explain to the five major BCS contributors that the NCAA is no longer interested in accepting their combined billion dollars, because despite it having absolutely no value to us, we want to crown a playoff champion. We don't care at all that any and all Dec. 7 games would make it impossible to hold a championship game at that location, and how the simple logistics of the entire set-up would plunge the value of all of those games so low, ironically, there wouldn't even be a point in playing them.

You have not considered travel expenses at all. Yes, I understand they put 105,000 people in the Big House, but do you have any idea how much money it costs to travel a football team? Let's put it this way: Pretty much outside of Jan. 1 bowl games, schools are paying money to play in the post-season as it is. Since you cut the five major payout games, and largely defined the one championship game as the biggest income-producer, and crushed value of all the others, where do you suggest schools find the money to travel? From the school? You mean the same institution you have now basically mandated that their "student" athletes depart even further from the definition of that title, and participate in football from early August (some schools have them start even earlier) and go through to January?

Not ONE of those players would graduate on time, if they even did. It may not be a big deal to the rabid college football fans, but I'm fairly certain most universities do try to provide their students with something of an education.

Yes, I'm sorry, purists out there, this is about money. The BCS exists because it is the best possible system that keeps advertising monies as high as they can be. It's naive to actually think this system is going away any time soon.

And ya wanna know why? Cuz it's the absolute dead period in the college football 12-month season, and we're STILL talking about it. Regardless of the same old tired arguments about the BCS getting rehashed every year, the interest is still sky-high. That keeps value high. There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO incentive for the NCAA to change what they have.

(feel free to TD with me about this if you want to)

good luck sportsfan

please dont vote until we least get out two arguements.

See, you can't say something like "don't vote until we get out two arguments" and then vote for yourself, Elway. We can check now and see that you have cast the only vote so far.

So we're all about ditching any and all tradition with bowl games for this tournament? You realize the quarterfinals are inherently less valuable than the semi-finals, and so on, right? If that's the case, you'd be lucky to recoup the money you blew by changing the format for the BCS Championship game, but there's no way you could expect to make nearly as much in the quarterfinals as you would in the 7-8, 5-6 and 3-4 games. You've eliminated demand completely.

No duh. But like i wouldnt end up voting for myself anyways.

No offense sportsfan but do you think i would vote for anyone but myself in my own throwdown?

Good luck to you too but ya I'm gonna vote for myself and vice versa It'a how it works

Nice arguements. But may the better case win.

ya im very strong about this subject so im behind this 100 percent and you had some nice arguements too good luck

I thought of this throwdown ironically when he was asking for ideas. I guess i got lucky you picked my own lol

No vote, because I have the answer:
32 teams. 16 from I-A, and 16 from I-AA. Seed it #1 in I-A vs. #16 in I-AA, and so on.
PROVE Appalachian State beating Michigan wasn't a fluke. Oh, did I neglect to mention that you abolish the ENTIRE bowl format??
Have regionals, just like March Madness. Play 'em in NFL stadiums. This way, you'll have a TRUE national champion on New Year's night.
I'm teling you, this CAN be done if it's done RIGHT.

Yeah...DC...that idea is right up there with the Jump to Conclusions Mat.

SportsFan's on the left, but I'm stickin' to the right. I still contend that considering everything, the current system is the best it's going to get. As a Division I-AA alumnus, I couldn't care less about the national championship. Rivalry games and pro prospects, that's all college football is or should be.

person on right has a way better idea