[NOTE: Original post with comments here.]
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but GTP’s second poll is all about the D-1 football postseason and which format you’d prefer to see. For the purpose of this exercise, don’t worry about the horsetrading it would take to get where you want to go. I simply want to see what everyone likes the best.
Here are some details on your choices:
- Blutarsky’s eight-team, conference champs only playoff: reduce D-1 to eight ten-team power conferences, with some judicious rejiggering to balance out conference strength.
- Eight-team, current conference champs only playoff: Troy would be in, Florida would be out. So would the polls and computers, though.
- BCS Guru’s “plus one”.
- Mike Slive’s “plus one”.
- Eight-team playoff, based on top eight teams in BCS rankings.
- Sixteen-team playoff, based on conference champs plus eight other highest-ranked teams in BCS standings.
- 1-AA sized playoff (20-24 teams)
- The BCS
- Your father’s postseason: bowls without BCS. Ahhh, the way we were. JoePa’s favorite.
- Other (describe in comments)
Alrighty then – let’s see what we’ve got.
Factor the sixteen-team playoff system into 15 of the the bowls:
Make 2 additional bowls “BCS” level bowls (ex Cotton, Chick FilA).
Rearrange the bowl schedule so the first round of the playoffs occurs weekend of Dec 24 or thereabouts (8 games); 2nd round Jan 1, (Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Chick); semifinals Jan 8 (Orange, Fiesta–rotate the Big Six bowls year to year); Championship Jan 15.
Bowl system benefits: much more interest in Outback, Holiday, Gator, Alamo-level bowls if they’re Round 1 of a College Football Championship playoff.
Leave the lower-tier bowls as they are, no harm to them; Weedeater Bowl will be just as significant as always. If you’re a traditional New Year’s weekend bowl game who doesn’t want to change your date just to be a Round 1 site (Capital 1, maybe) fine, play whenever you want, just not as a part of the playoff.
Have four regions. NW, SE, SW and NW. Let each region determine how they will pick a representitive school from their region. They may use a BCS type system or whatever. That will give you four teams.
Have a national BCS added 5th thru 8 teams. These would be the highest ranked teams not already included in the regional four.
Draw matchups out of a hat….Play the first round….four winners draw again…play round two….two winners left for MNC game. (I gave this very little thought. I have no problem wasting people’s time)
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Uglydawg. I like it but would never happen