At larges, by rule would still have to be Michigan, LSU, Boise. (2 of these)
- One rule says top 4 are automatically in.
- One rule says top 12 from mid-major have to be in.
- Of course both rules refer to a situtation with 10 slots, and my solution only has 8 slots.
I'd say a 4-team playoff would look like...
- OSU v. LSU
- Florida v. Michigan
- Louisville gets screwed
8 team playoff would look like
- OSU v. Wake Forest (1 vs lowest)
- USC/LSU v. Louisville (4 vs. 5)
- Florida v. Okla/Boise St. (2 vs next lowest, my TV screen would blow up with the colors if it was UF v. BSU)
- Michigan v. USC/Oklahoma (3 vs 3rd lowest eligible)
- Either LSU or Boise St gets screwed, so does Wisconsin.
16 team playoff, all conference champs get in, 5 at-larges
- 1.OSU v. Middle Tennessee St.
- 8.Wisconsin v. Notre Dame (wisconsin bumped to avoid rematches in first 2 rounds)
- 4.LSU v. BYU
- 5.Louisville v. Wake Forest
- 3.Michigan v. Houston
- 6.USC v. Auburn (auburn bumped to avoid rematch w/LSU)
- 7.Oklahoma v. Boise St.
- 2.Florida v. Central Michigan
- Arkansas, West Viriginia, Texas all get screwed among others.
I agree that this last format would "ruin" bowls but who cares at this point
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Tim
I am thinking that the only way a playoff type system could work and keep the bowl system in tact would be to do the following:
-reduce the number of conferences, at least for football, and/or division I (BCS) schools; people who say the current conferences have history are full of it. The big 12 use to be the big 8, the SEC was something else, etc.
-institute a mandatory conference final to crown a conference champ and to avoid the "we did not get to play such and such crap"; this system could allow the current bowl scheme to remain in tact since these games usually are usually played on netural ground
-a play off of the winners from above, with likely only 4 or 8 teams making it based on conference strength (more conference games, less non conference is a must)
Conference championship games are not inherently more fair. Within your division it's not really possible to play a balanced schedule compared to another team in your division.
When there are 12 teams in the conference, usually you play the 5 in your division and 3 from the other half. In the SEC a team could play Florida/Tennessee/Georgia
while another team in the same division plays S.Carolina/Vanderbilt/Kentucky
These matchups don't even rotate randomly, they have some every year to protect rivalries.
See how this could affect standings?
But I do agree that more conference games works better, the Pac 10 did it this year, and it greatly skewed their SOS.
I just think at-larges are inevitable.
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