Expansion = playoff

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albedo33 said:
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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Right, because those end of season rivalries totally aren't meaningless exhibition games as it stands. How many OSU-Michigan games have actually had national relevance in the last 25 years?
 
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UTRavens said:
Right, because those end of season rivalries totally aren't meaningless exhibition games as it stands. How many OSU-Michigan games have actually had national relevance in the last 25 years?
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national title results not withstanding, pretty sure they were the first subject of the "conference rivalry national title rematch" discussion
 
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milohimself said:
national title results not withstanding, pretty sure they were the first subject of the "conference rivalry national title rematch" discussion
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Like you said, while this is true about the discussion, didn't the title game absolve all concerns about whether either of the two deserved all the hoopla? However, these games ARE the main reason many "fans" watch college football. They have bigger parties and put more into some rivalry games than the NC game itself. These games are a big deal to a lot of people that don't even caonsider themselves CFB fans, whrther or not the teams areeven "relevant."
 
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And it did the exact opposite this last season -- it rendered lsu's win at Alabama completely meaningless. Will do more of the same with a playoff.

I would just prefer to see a shift back to the old, old bowl system. Just playing some exhibition games and people guessing the national champs would be hardly less effective than what the bcs churns out most years. Frankly, I don't even care about the national championship as much as I do about conference championships. Plus that would create more of an impetus to play higher profile nonconference games
 
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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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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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Can we just rename this "The Internet Chat Board Idea That Will Never Happen"
 
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Ladies, I was just kidding. In case you didn't pick up on it that's the exact formula the NFL has. It was a joke.

All kidding aside I really do think FBS needs to be contracted. Not to 32 but maybe like 75 or so. There is no fair system with a 120 teams. Football cannot support a 65 team tourney like basketball and the smaller schools will never sniff a 4-6 team playoff.

I would like to see either a +1 model with #1 vs #4 and #2 vs #3, or a 6 team play off with the #1-2 getting a bye, the first round played at home stadiums of #3 and #4 before Christmas and the semi and final rounds played in the major bowls.
 
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fade route said:
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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if you were an old school purist, you would prefer the national championship be awarded before bowl games were played. or if that's too old school, you would prefer the system of bowl tie-in's that basically meant a team could win the national title by beating the the #7 team in the country instead of having to play #2.

the bcs ain't exactly "old school".
 
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I have posted this idea on other websites. The Div I NCAA football program is too big. Take the 6 major conferences, call them Majors. Have each conference champion and the 2 highest rated non-champs play in an 8-team playoff. Same for the remaining conferences - Mid-majors. Schools would have a more equal chance of winning the National Championship.
 
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Trewblueboy said:
I have posted this idea on other websites. The Div I NCAA football program is too big. Take the 6 major conferences, call them Majors. Have each conference champion and the 2 highest rated non-champs play in an 8-team playoff. Same for the remaining conferences - Mid-majors. Schools would have a more equal chance of winning the National Championship.
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The Internet Chat Board Idea That Will Never Happen


its not like youre the first nor the last. Just because you post it on different websites doesnt make it better or valid.
 
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99gator said:
if you were an old school purist, you would prefer the national championship be awarded before bowl games were played. or if that's too old school, you would prefer the system of bowl tie-in's that basically meant a team could win the national title by beating the the #7 team in the country instead of having to play #2.

the bcs ain't exactly "old school".
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I would love to have that system again. With the size of FBS, determining a national champ is a waste of time. It would put the emphasis back on regional coverage and conference championships, which is where it should be.
 
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