Expansion = playoff

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tngivem6

tngivem6

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I was just wondering what some of you thought about how the landscape of college football is changing.
I love tradition. We all know how flawed the BCS system is. Plus 1 is a small step towards a playoff system.
My thought is, if the major conferences ( SEC, Pac-16, BIG 12?, BIG 10?etc continue to expand to 16 teams. Its just obvious that a 8 team playoff system would work. Conference champs home field in first round then use the bowls for remainder round. Rotate championship game to major bowl sites.
 
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I guess I'm just an old school purist, but I actually love the system the way it is. I love the drama of the BCS rankings than come out late in the year and how every game counts in the regular season. And, although I agree there are far too many bowls, I still like watching a majority of them. One of my favorite weeks of the year is between Christmas and NewYears watching some of the lower teir bowls, and building momentum to the big ones. It's not a perfect system, but the +1 model has worked so far pairing up the best 2 teams. I know it's probably inevitable, but I do love it the way it is now.
 
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I'd like to see a 6 team playoff where 1 and 2 get a bye. That gives you five games which fits nicely with the major bowls.
 
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Im a plus one guy and nothing more. To me it's the best of both worlds.

I wish I could take everybody under 30 that hates the BCS back to about 1989 so I could watch their heads explode in reaction to the way it was back then. The BCS accomplishes it's goal every year and is such a huge improvement that it's not funny.
 
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I just think the 6 or so team playoff would be the same thing, who decides who is the 6th team to get in? 7 will be mad and probably have a good argument.
 
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GAVol said:
Im a plus one guy and nothing more. To me it's the best of both worlds.

I wish I could take everybody under 30 that hates the BCS back to about 1989 so I could watch their heads explode in reaction to the way it was back then. The BCS accomplishes it's goal every year and is such a huge improvement that it's not funny.
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Yeah I agree. Their heads would explode. The BCS did help clean that mess up.
 
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JeffHostetler said:
I just think the 6 or so team playoff would be the same thing, who decides who is the 6th team to get in? 7 will be mad and probably have a good argument.
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It would be no different than it is in basketball. Some teams that should make it but don't and vice versa. Can't please everyone I guess
 
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JeffHostetler said:
I just think the 6 or so team playoff would be the same thing, who decides who is the 6th team to get in? 7 will be mad and probably have a good argument.
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If you can't make it to 6 after 12 games you could b...h, but you'd have no right to
 
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already in the works, 4 team playoff beginning in 2014. all that needs to be done is voted on in june. it is all but done. this is all we need. 4 teams is plenty and they will be able to keep the current bowls as they are.
 
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Plus one would satisfy me. It's not like the BCS has ever really screwed us over. We've done that ourselves.
 
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I think a plus one would be fine. No more than 8 for sure. As much as i love March madness in basketball, I would hate for that to come to football.

As far as expansion, i wish they would set a limit of 12 teams per conference. No offense to Mizzou and aTm (they are great schools) but they along with Nebraska belong in the Big 12. West VA belongs in the Big East. This expansion crap is killing the regionality and many rivalries of the best sport on the planet.
 
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I doubt there will ever be a true fix. There will always be those 2-3 teams that believe they should of been in it. So somebody will always complain, even with 65+ teams in basketball there are still teams angry that they got left out.
 
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UTwild82 said:
I think a plus one would be fine. No more than 8 for sure. As much as i love March madness in basketball, I would hate for that to come to football.

As far as expansion, i wish they would set a limit of 12 teams per conference. No offense to Mizzou and aTm (they are great schools) but they along with Nebraska belong in the Big 12. West VA belongs in the Big East. This expansion crap is killing the regionality and many rivalries of the best sport on the planet.
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Is there still a big east?
Plus rename them. Big 12 has ten and the big 10 has 12. Colleges should know how to count, geeze .
 
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tngivem6 said:
Is there still a big east?
Plus rename them. Big 12 has ten and the big 10 has 12. Colleges should know how to count, geeze .
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LOL, no kidding! The Big EAST that stretches from New Jersey to San Diego and from Boise, ID to Tampa, FL. Yeah, that conference makes sense. There are some rumors that Boise and San Diego St may be getting cold feet. I pray that is true. The mountain west is as good as this pitiful Big east and travel expenses have to be off the charts to play weekly in Connecticut, New jersey, Florida, etc.
 
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The 4 team that is coming is perfect IMO. That is as long as they do it through the BCS rating system and not as a selection committee or with any other strings attached.

How do you get the Bammers claimiing 13 or more national championships? By not having a playoff system. There would have been no Okie State crying, Boise State's arguments would go away every year; the Big East could go pound sand if they stayed like they are; Notre Dame would have to join a conference; etc.
 
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Just please for the love of pete change the championship game from Monday to Saturday. I hate Monday championship games with a burning passion of 1000 suns!
 
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The main problem I have with a 4-team playoff system is that it will, as surely as the dawn, become an 8-team playoff, then 16 teams, then 32 teams, then 64 teams, with the NC game coming halfway through the spring semester. As well, traditional rivalries like OU-Texas and OSU-Michigan will be little more than tune-up scrimmages, because it's all about the post-season, baby!
 
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JuggernaUT_VOL said:
Just please for the love of pete change the championship game from Monday to Saturday. I hate Monday championship games with a burning passion of 1000 suns!
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I will agree with you here - even the NCAA bball championship game is on a Monday night. WTF?? I have so much family chaos going on on Monday nights.
 
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The BCS hasn't screwed over TN, but ask Auburn about going undeeated and being left out. 16 team, four division conferences would probably get us much closer to the goal of a true NC, but, as mentioned earlier, someone is always gonna *****.
 
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fade route said:
I will agree with you here - even the NCAA bball championship game is on a Monday night. WTF?? I have so much family chaos going on on Monday nights.
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I hear you there! Plus it's was after 9 before it even started.
Saturday night game would be great!!
 
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GAVol said:
Im a plus one guy and nothing more. To me it's the best of both worlds.

I wish I could take everybody under 30 that hates the BCS back to about 1989 so I could watch their heads explode in reaction to the way it was back then. The BCS accomplishes it's goal every year and is such a huge improvement that it's not funny.
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The fact that the BCS is a much better system than not having a system does not make the BCS a good system.
 
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I think the NCAA needs to throw the whole bowl system out with the lone exception of the National title game. Contract Div-I to 32 teams and split them into 2 major conferences then divide them into four divisions. Have a 12 team playoff split between the two conferences, four division winners and two wild cards each. The two best records of each conference get a bye and homefeild advantage throughout the post season. The other division winners get an automatic home game even if the wild card team had a better record. That would solve everything.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I think the NCAA needs to throw the whole bowl system out with the lone exception of the National title game. Contract Div-I to 32 teams and split them into 2 major conferences then divide them into four divisions. Have a 12 team playoff split between the two conferences, four division winners and two wild cards each. The two best records of each conference get a bye and homefeild advantage throughout the post season. The other division winners get an automatic home game even if the wild card team had a better record. That would solve everything.
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FAIL!!

That would surely do away with the SEC. and alot of big SEC games that we have loved having over the many years..
 
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With as big as fbs is, trying to determine a national champ and keeping the integrity of the regular season is a hopeless endeavor. Yes, teams like oklahoma state last year and auburn in 04 had legit beef, but I can think of a number of years where the third and fourth place teams would have no business in a play in game to determine the winner of the whole thing. not to mention the occasional season with five undefeated teams; what then?

Every year we'll either have somebody getting screwed and/or somebody who doesn't belong.
 
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