Perfect 8 Team Playoff System For College Football
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by user Jdsgafflin
It seems so simple to me.
Eight team playoff consisting of six conference champions (BCS Conferences) plus two at large teams. At large teams and seeding shall be determined by a selection committee akin to the NCAA basketball selection process. This team should be made up of former players and other football people instead of writers/coaches. Current polls and computers are such a huge part of the problem, I'd like them scrapped or just used as reference tools for the committee.
First four games can be played at neutral sites or (for those that complain about travel and other logicstical issues) allow the higher seeds to host the first round games. Either way you are going to have four stellar matchups to kick things off. The games could be played New Years Day (or I might recommend playing them in early December in place of conference championship games or the week after). Use existing bowls if it makes things easier on the powers that be.
Then you have a Saturday with 2 semis and a national title game the week after. Only four colleges have their post-season expanded beyond one game and you really don't need the final date of the season to run beyond the current Jan 8.
The first round this year might look like this:
(1) OSU (8) Wake Forest
(4) USC (5) LSU
(2) Florida (7) Oklahoma
(3) Michigan (6) Louisville
I think it's rock solid but would love to hear why you might think otherwise.
