BCS or Playoffs?

BCS or PLAYOFFS?

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#103
#103
VOLnVEGAS said:
Me too. Maybe that aint popular, but it is one opinion.
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Yours, mine and his... now there's 3 opinions for bowl games. And I hate the fact that the BCSCG is a week later. I have moved on by then, and couldn't care less about it. (Unless of course the VOLS are there)
 
#105
#105
Ohio Vol said:
A playoff would have to involve 16 teams, including all conference champions. So if you like a first-round matchup of the Sun Belt champion against the overall #1 team in the land, have at it.

A playoff system would be the death knell for smaller colleges. Their only means of exposure are the off-night games (MAC on Thursdays, for example) and the bowl games. When they're going head-to-head for TV time on Saturdays, they're screwed. A playoff system, even if it claimed to "keep intact" the rest of the bowl games, would push those bowls into irrelevance and eventually to extinction. Then literally all of the talk about college football would be over the large conferences and large schools, thus widening the gap between the top and bottom to 1970s proportions nearly overnight.
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Why do you have to include all conference champs? Let them play the major teams in regular season. If they can win, they will get votes. Why do we have to pretend small conferences have a chance for NC?
 
#106
#106
rbroyles said:
Why do you have to include all conference champs? Let them play the major teams in regular season. If they can win, they will get votes. Why do we have to pretend small conferences have a chance for NC?
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If anyone gets an automatic bid based on being a conference champion, then all conferences have to get it.

And small conference teams do have a chance. Unfortunately, most of them are more interested in beating up on 1-AA cupcakes in addition to playing in a pathetically feeble conference rather than taking on two or three tough non-conference games to compensate for not being in a tough conference.
 
#107
#107
No one should get an automatic bid. Not the SEC, not the Big 12, and certainly not the WAC. If the team is good enough to make the playoff, then they'll get in.
 
#108
#108
tvolsfan said:
No one should get an automatic bid. Not the SEC, not the Big 12, and certainly not the WAC. If the team is good enough to make the playoff, then they'll get in.
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I agree with this...It's like in the NFL when a 9-7 division winner gets in over a team that is 12-4 in a stacked division.

I am torn on the number of teams in the playoff though. I have always felt like 8 is the max no doubt, it wouldn't dimish the regular season in anyway. My main problem with 8 is I hate rematch games. I would hate to see TN beat a FL or Bama in the regular season just to have to face them again in the playoff.

So taking that into consideration I feel like 4 or 6 would be the best option. You could do 6 and have the top 2 get byes (to reward them for having the best seasons).

3/6 Play in the Cotton Bowl and 4/5 Play in the Fiesta.
Then 1 V 4/5 in the Sugar and 2 V 3/6 in the Orange
then Na cha is the Rose Bowl. You rotate those 5 bowls each year to keep it fair!

Whatcha think? I also think each conference should be required to have 12 teams and a championship game. Pac 10 could add BYU and Boise, Big Ten could add ND, and Big East could add some more crap teams.
 
#111
#111
VOLS INC. said:
that's stuff happens to all champions at some point during the season. you have to get lucky at some point during the season.
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I think that's true. I remember the Husker's win against Mizzou. I have never witnessed anything quite like that play in the end zone.
 
#113
#113
VOLS INC. said:
Im sure this topic has been beat to death but I am fairly new to volnation and want to know what my fellow vol fans think. Plus we have memphis this week. enough said

I Hate the BCS. I Hate it so bad. I think that it is perfect for deciding an 8 team playoff but a pitiful excuse for deciding a national champion.I can't understand how a panel of people and computers decide a champion instead of players and coaches. Yet, I turn on the TV and i hear college football analyst that love it and say that a playoff would act as a crutch to teams and that we should keep tradition because it makes college football different. I have friends that like the BCS too i don't get it. Please explain why

With CLK here I don't think its crazy to think the vols could get back to a National title game in the near future. Just wanna know what people other than my friends,family, and analyst think about the way college football decides it's champion.

This would have been the 1st round of the playoffs last year based on the top 8 teams in the BCS after the conference championships. I would have loved to have seen this.

#1 Oklahoma vs #8 Penn State
#2 Florida vs #7 Texas Tech
#3 Texas vs #6 Utah
#4 Alabama vs #5 USC
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I think a tounrmanet would be awesome. Cut back to 11 games and do a 16 or 24 yeam tournament. You can still have bowl games.
 
#114
#114
tvolsfan said:
No one should get an automatic bid. Not the SEC, not the Big 12, and certainly not the WAC. If the team is good enough to make the playoff, then they'll get in.
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I agree with you sentiment, but not with your conclusion.
 
#115
#115
The SEC has been the toughest conference the last few years, and they haven't had any problems producing title contenders. I don't think it would be much different under a new system.
 
#116
#116
tvolsfan said:
The SEC has been the toughest conference the last few years, and they haven't had any problems producing title contenders. I don't think it would be much different under a new system.
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great point. and how cool would it be if 2 sec schools beat the other playoff teams and made it to the national title game. then we could really show these other conferences who their daddy is.
 
#122
#122
I am definitely in favor of a playoff scenario, where at least mid-major programs have a shot, even if it's remote, of pulling the upset and winning the national title. Look at March Madness. While we couldn't have that big of a field for a football playoff, the fact remains that the champions from the mid-major conferences get in, and in theory, if they continue to win, they have a shot. Under the BCS, teams that are in the same general classification (FBS) but happen to play in the MAC, the MWC, the Sun Belt, Conference USA, etc. don't really have a prayer of making a Championship game unless they're undefeated and every team from the automatic qualifying conferences are all sitting at two losses ore more. For example, sure, on the whole, the BCS conferences are better than the Mid-Major conferences, but I think it's obvious that in pretty much any given year, the best teams in those Mid-Major conferences are at least as good as, if not better than, the teams doing poorly in the BCS conferences. Establishing a proper playoff system would at least give the other schools a shot. A small one, as naturally more talented players would still gravitate towards the bigger schools, but a shot nonetheless.
 
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