College Playoff Format. . . thoughts???

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WillFollowPearl

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So I was surfing the net and came across a football playoff where the fans vote on who they think would win. (Tennessee is playing Ohio State in the first round btw with UT being a 16 seed and OSU being a 1 seed). The format is that of a region bracket in basketball. 16 teams, 1 playin 16, 2 playing 15 and so on. Of course it is set up so that if the higher seeds won there games 1 and 2 would meet in the title game.

Anyway, what I was thinking was maybe we could adopt this in college football, using the bowls as the games sights.

Shorten the regular season to 10 games, require all confrences to have a championship game, or for confrences that dont have a championship game, require and 11th regular season game. (Ala SEC would have 10 games while Big 10 would have 11) Take the confrence champions from all major D1 confrences, Big East, ACC, Con-USA, WAC, SEC, Big 12, Pac 10, Big 10, and any other major confrences I may have left out. Say there are 10, that leaves 6 at larges. Then duke it out ON THE FIELD.

Any thoughts???

here is the link to ths SI story btw: SI.com - NCAA Football - Your votes fuel a 16-team college football tournament - Wednesday December 5, 2007 12:41PM
 
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If there is ever a playoff, which we prob. won't be around to see, it won't be 16 teams, and the regular season will never be shortened. I love the 8-team playoff idea but, the closest we'll ever get is the plus-1.
 
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kkep48 said:
If there is ever a playoff, which we prob. won't be around to see, it won't be 16 teams, and the regular season will never be shortened. I love the 8-team playoff idea but, the closest we'll ever get is the plus-1.
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I would like to see all the major Conferences have a CG. Winners + 2 at Large. SEC, Big 12, ACC, Big 11, PAC 10, Big East.

6 + two At Large.
 
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I think you tske the Top 8 teams put them in the respective 4 BCS bowls and winners advance until you're down to 2 teams playing for it all. It's a +2 formula that puts the best against each other.

Although I don't think a conference should be allowed to play in a BCS bowl unless they have a conference championship game...
 
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I too favor an 8-team playoff, and I don't think it would destroy the bowl system.
 
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ukvols said:
I too favor an 8-team playoff, and I don't think it would destroy the bowl system.
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agreed. That's the arguement I do not get... I truly think that a College Playoff might be a bigger Payday than the NFL Playoffs. Not the one game Super bowl vs NCG but the entire Playoff.
 
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The money lost on a playoff system would be astronomical.
A) Look at the money the NFL misses out on when no one tunes into their playoffs

B) What sponsors would want to be involved in a playoff game? Answer-none!

C) Who would go to see their team take on an over ranked BS #1 in hopes of killing them and advancing to a possible NC chance?

D) Why would you want to spend Saturdays in December watching even MORE college football!! Sheesh!
 
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Depending on the team I will watch the playoffs alot of times.

B) If its at the same site the bowl would be at. why would the sponsors not want to be involved?

c) well lets see this year.. I think GA, VT, and USC all might want to get a shot a going to the championship game. Possible mizzou also..

d) hmm maybe beacause people like to watch college football?
 
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i'm not willing to trade the 13 weeks of the regular season for 4 weeks in December. and no one is going broke.

comparing a mythical playoff of teams determined by the BCS to the NFL that actually only lets teams that WIN get in is completely inaccurate. and before you throw the wild card at me, the NFL has made the wild card road extremely difficult.

-no home games
-must play 4 games straight to win it all.
-top seeds get home feild and a week off

this 16 team nonsense people want to throw in does none of that. it gives #16 yet another chance to do something they had the opportunity to do previously in the regular season. that's it. there's no reward for being #1 or #2. it's basically a "do over" for those that couldn't get it right to begin with.

in this playoff as it is set up, we are that #16 seed. so we're in so to speak. and there is no way you are going to convince me that we, Tennessee, have done anything to warrant yet another shot at winning a national title given the season we had.

at best you have 6-7 teams that realistically have a say in it. and this year is the anomoly, not the rule.
 
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I like the fact in college football that every single game of the season has playoff-like significance.

That's what makes college football so breath-takingly exciting.

Yes it would be kind of cool for #16 UT to be fighting in the playoffs for a natl' champiionship.

But what if you had duked it out in the SEC all year long and scrapped and clawed to #4 or #5 and in the playoffs some #15 or#16- ranked WAC school gets streaky and pulls off some fluke wins to get the championship. Does this mean they are the best team in the country?

I don't know what the solution is, but those are some of the arguments against the playoff.
 
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bluegrasser said:
I like the fact in college football that every single game of the season has playoff-like significance.

That's what makes college football so breath-takingly exciting.

Yes it would be kind of cool for #16 UT to be fighting in the playoffs for a natl' champiionship.

But what if you had duked it out in the SEC all year long and scrapped and clawed to #4 or #5 and in the playoffs some #15 or#16- ranked WAC school gets streaky and pulls off some fluke wins to get the championship. Does this mean they are the best team in the country?

I don't know what the solution is, but those are some of the arguments against the playoff.
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:thumbsup: and i don't thnk that would necessarily happen in that fashion, at least not all that often, but nonetheless.......you are correct about how tough the reg. season is, and if you do find yourself fortunate enough to finish the season undefeated, or w/1 loss, and a conf. champ ranked in the top 2, now you're telling me that was for nothing? that i might actualy have to play a team, or teams, that i've already beaten previously to prove i'm the best.........again?

then one has to ask the quesiton.......what was the big deal about those games in the first place???:question:
 
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awebb7 said:
The money lost on a playoff system would be astronomical.
A) Look at the money the NFL misses out on when no one tunes into their playoffs

B) What sponsors would want to be involved in a playoff game? Answer-none!

C) Who would go to see their team take on an over ranked BS #1 in hopes of killing them and advancing to a possible NC chance?

D) Why would you want to spend Saturdays in December watching even MORE college football!! Sheesh!
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hehe- I was about to blast you until a huge wave of sarcasm hit me in the face. :)
 
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SWIL said:
hehe- I was about to blast you until a huge wave of sarcasm hit me in the face. :)
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8 game playoff.

4 games
2 games
undisputed national champion.

There would still be complaints, but you take the BCS top 8 and make them play it out. Seems rational and fair, and yes, that was a huge heaping pile of sarcasm. Corporations would be tripping all over themselves to be involved in playoff games.
 
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awebb7 said:
The money lost on a playoff system would be astronomical.
A) Look at the money the NFL misses out on when no one tunes into their playoffs

B) What sponsors would want to be involved in a playoff game? Answer-none!

C) Who would go to see their team take on an over ranked BS #1 in hopes of killing them and advancing to a possible NC chance?

D) Why would you want to spend Saturdays in December watching even MORE college football!! Sheesh!
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I hope this is sarcastic....
 
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bluegrasser said:
I like the fact in college football that every single game of the season has playoff-like significance.

That's what makes college football so breath-takingly exciting.

Yes it would be kind of cool for #16 UT to be fighting in the playoffs for a natl' champiionship.

But what if you had duked it out in the SEC all year long and scrapped and clawed to #4 or #5 and in the playoffs some #15 or#16- ranked WAC school gets streaky and pulls off some fluke wins to get the championship. Does this mean they are the best team in the country?

I don't know what the solution is, but those are some of the arguments against the playoff.
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You cant dispute the popularity of March Madness in college basketball. Using your logic, please explain George Mason in the Final Four, who beat some extremely good teams in making it there. One game I can rule off to chance, two games luck, but a run of what would be 4 games, c'mon now.
 
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WillFollowPearl said:
You cant dispute the popularity of March Madness in college basketball. Using your logic, please explain George Mason in the Final Four, who beat some extremely good teams in making it there. One game I can rule off to chance, two games luck, but a run of what would be 4 games, c'mon now.
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and you also can't dispute the regular season head to head matchups for 65 teams is utterly meaningless, espeically for the 5-8 teams from each power conference that get in.
 
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With what we have seen in Parity this year in football. We once again will be saying we do not have a True Champion... OK, USC, even GA will lay claims to it...No matter who wins the NC Game.
 
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jakez4ut said:
and you also can't dispute the regular season head to head matchups for 65 teams is utterly meaningless, espeically for the 5-8 teams from each power conference that get in.
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in conference records are usually 500 or above for BB....
 
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If there is a playoff, it would be better to not have more than 4 teams, and it should be 8 at the most.
 
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