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My Version Of A College Football Playoff

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by Cknight5

I have spent a lot of time thinking about this, and this is my idea of the best layout for a college football playoff.

First off, it would be an eight team playoff system.  The first 6 teams would be conference champions of the following conferences:

ACC
Big East
Big Ten
Big Twelve
SEC
Pac 10

The other two teams would be at-large teams, the highest two ranketed teams in the USA Today Poll who didn't win their conference or aren't in one of those six major conferences.. Seeding would be based on USA Today Rankings.

So let's look at this if it was used during the 2006 season.

  1. 1-Ohio State(Big Ten Champ)
  2. 2-Florida(SEC Champ)
  3. 3-Michigan(At-Large)
  4. 4-LSU(At-Large)
  5. 5-Louisville(Big East Champ)
  6. 6-USC(Pac 10 Champ)
  7. 7-Oklahoma(Big 12 Champ)
  8. 8-Wake Forest(ACC Champ)

I understand that in a year like last year that still might not work because of teams left out like Wisconsin or Boise State, but no matter how you set it up, someone is going to be disappointed.


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Yakob878MVP
880 days ago
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ya its hard to figure it out but this is a nice idea
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ChristofMVP
880 days ago
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I would rather see a 16 team playoff. Here is how you do it.

Have an 11 game regular season. The 12th game that was added last year is turned is the first round of the playoff. The previous conference championship game becomes round two. The bowl game becomes the third round. The championship game is added.

By doing this, only 2 teams will play an additional game then what they are doing now.
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Yakob878MVP
880 days ago
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that sounds like a good idea
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Cknight5Waterboy
880 days ago
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ya christof, that's a great way to do it.
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ChristofMVP
880 days ago
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Sadly, this will never happen. :(
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B-ryeJV Squad
880 days ago
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How about a 16 team playoff with an automatic bid for every conference winner (yes, including the Sun Belt) and fill in the rest with at larges similar to the basketball tournament. Sure, there will be some terrible first round games, but the potential for a cinderella story is also there. That and NCAA Football would join the ranks of every sport in the world where every team starts out on equal footing, at least on paper.
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NejoshiDiv-I Stud
879 days ago
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I like that idea, but the NCAA probably wants the regular season to be really important the way it is now
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IbeargRed-Shirting
880 days ago
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Lets see if they have the balls to go to a +1 system before we even begin to hope for a playoff
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MECUVarsity
879 days ago
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I still don't want a playoff. It would devalue the regular season. Right now, the whole season is a playoff.
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The ProfessorWaterboy
879 days ago
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The WHOLE season is not really a playoff, since all the teams don't play one another. USC pulling Idaho in the "first round" is not exactly compelling football. But I can see how, in the parlance of the NCAA basketball tournament, one could consider the winners of the conferences akin to the winners of each bracket. Problem is these winners don't all get to play one another (ala the Final Four) to determine the best team.
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Yakob878MVP
879 days ago
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no it really is not
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Yakob878MVP
879 days ago
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i season being a playoff that is
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1MountaineerWaterboy
875 days ago
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A Good Idea but needs some tweaking and yeah I would have liked to see a Boise State play for it last year. I know their numbers wasnt as high as some or they didnt score as many points against somone as other teams did, but it's not about the points its about the wins... Every game is different sometimes a team runs up the scoreboard to secure a win sometimes they just keep running it and let the time run... and as the season as a playoff, I cant see that, there is no set form on who everyone plays and it doesnt give a good idea on who is really better than who. Look at the Big Ten and how strong they were looked at, some said Ohio and Mich should play each other again in the BCS Championship game... and looked what happened in the Rose bowl and Fla just dominating Ohio... predictions are good and I have mine too... but unless two teams play each other and work their way to a top game in which two teams play for it all, without no question, there is no way one could determine whose the best team in the nation. We need at least a 16 team playoff system... college basketball gets it.
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
778 days ago
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Permit me to expand on your idea a bit, Cknight5. Let's do a 64-team and seed it like the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. Games would be played in neutral site cities that have domes or warm weather. There is one fly in the ointment and that's the college presidents, who would rather eat glass than have a playoff system in 1A because their argument is that players miss too much class. Hello? Don't most schools have a tutor that travel with them?
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