Will College Football ever have a playoff?

Will we ever have a playoff in College Football?

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After watching Florida dismantle no. 1 OSU and Boise St dismantle Oklahoma, isn't it time for a playoff?

Don't tell me the season is too long for a playoff. College football players graduate and go to the NFL where they play a longer season with a playoff, and I never here coaches complaining the NFL season is to long.
 
#2
#2
I think thats its likely that the NCAA will finally try out the playoff format. But not anytime in the near future.
 
#3
#3
We'll see it by the end of this decade. I think it's finally time.
 
#4
#4
Plus 1 format probably coming in the next 5 years.
 
#5
#5
I wouldn't say Boise dismantled Oklahoma, heck I turned that game off before the half because Oklahoma looked to have it in the bag.
 
#7
#7
IMO 16 team playoff is out of the question forever. But I think in the next 10 years or so we could see a 4 or 8 team playoff
 
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cibai said:
I wouldn't say Boise dismantled Oklahoma, heck I turned that game off before the half because Oklahoma looked to have it in the bag.
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An 8 team playoff last season would have been great. I think Boise St might have surprised another team. Stoops is no slouch, even though USC dismantled his team a couple of years earlier in an NC game.

I like an 8 team playoff. Two more games, and probably eliminates any team with 2 losses from a playoff spot most seasons.
 
#10
#10
Florida's president supports a playoff. Ironically, at least in an interview I saw, the A.D. at Florida seemed to prefer the BCS. I've had what I think is a pretty good idea for an 8-team playoff for some time now. I just got up enough nerve to deliver it to Machen. I typed it up, it is one page long, and I am going to put it in his mailbox. As for solving football's problems, that's the best I can do. :p
 
#11
#11
no, the closest thing you'll see to a play off is tweaking the 5th game of the BCS to the plus 1...
 
#13
#13
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here:

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The deal with the playoff is you don't need it every year. In using the playoff system...occasionally you will get a 2-loss or even 3-loss team winning it all. The regular season games wouldn't mean as much...it's true...

But it would be sweet for UT, and the rest of the 2-3 loss teams a year. Eventually, it would become like college basketball, with a hardly relevant regular season.

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I would like to at least like to see it tried out though. I think the real answer is a +1 system...with an option of not having the game based on a formula, or difference of losses between the top teams or something like that...
 
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stratocasterguitar said:
The deal with the playoff is you don't need it every year. In using the playoff system...occasionally you will get a 2-loss or even 3-loss team winning it all. The regular season games wouldn't mean as much...it's true...

But it would be sweet for UT, and the rest of the 2-3 loss teams a year. Eventually, it would become like college basketball, with a hardly relevant regular season.
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The reason the basketball season is somewhat devalued is not because there's a playoff; it's because there are 64 teams in that playoff. Every halfway decent team gets in. It would be easy to set up a playoff system that kept the intensity of the regular season intact -- you just eliminate or severely limit the number of at-large teams. An eight-team playoff, with six conference champions and two at-large teams, would be all right. With only two at-large teams from all of college football, every game would still be critical. You could go ahead and pencil in Ohio State or Michigan for one of those slots every year, because their conference sucks, but that's another matter.

One problem with that scenario is the conference championship games. For example, if that framework had been in place last year, LSU would have been pretty happy not to have to play in the SECCG. They would have been almost guaranteed of getting in the tournament, whereas the loser of UF-Arkansas wouldn't have made it. You'd have to figure out something to do about that. But in theory, an eight-team playoff would certainly keep the every-game-is-critical intensity that we have now.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The reason the basketball season is somewhat devalued is not because there's a playoff; it's because there are 64 teams in that playoff. Every halfway decent team gets in. It would be easy to set up a playoff system that kept the intensity of the regular season intact -- you just eliminate or severely limit the number of at-large teams. An eight-team playoff, with six conference champions and two at-large teams, would be all right. With only two at-large teams from all of college football, every game would still be critical. You could go ahead and pencil in Ohio State or Michigan for one of those slots every year, because their conference sucks, but that's another matter.

One problem with that scenario is the conference championship games. For example, if that framework had been in place last year, LSU would have been pretty happy not to have to play in the SECCG. They would have been almost guaranteed of getting in the tournament, whereas the loser of UF-Arkansas wouldn't have made it. You'd have to figure out something to do about that. But in theory, an eight-team playoff would certainly keep the every-game-is-critical intensity that we have now.
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I was about to make the same response. Also, as for the Plus One game happening some years but not all, there's no way they will ever schedule an extra game on a contingent basis. I think a playoff will happen. I am not sure when, but it is clear that more and more influential people are jumping on board. As for LSU, they probably would have gotten in alongside Florida as champion, but I am not sure they would have beaten out Florida had Arkansas won. It would have been a tough call. Perhaps they could ban taking somebody as an at-large over somebody who beat them head-to-head, unless they have fewer overall losses, or perhaps require a difference in losses by at least two.
 
#19
#19
i don't think i would like playoffs, but who knows. they will most likely try it some time and i might love it
 
#22
#22
i am just glad i am not the one in charge of whether or not college football gets one
 
#23
#23
not me, i'd gladly take on that responsibility.......and we'd all be better for it.:peace2:
 
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