We need a playoff...
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by Jdcane98
Intro:
After this goat-hump of a college football season, and with the fact looming that we might have a 2-loss national champion, it's safe to say a playoff system is in dire need for college football to remain relevant. I'm not saying CFB will disappear and become just another soccer to American sports fans, of course not. But my definition of relevance is "how legitimate an non-fan sees the sport." So what I am saying is this: in order for non-fans to see CFB as legitimate, and thus, become fans themselves, we need a playoff system in our beloved version of this sport. The idea I have proposed, the JCS, isn't that difficult at all. It's based on a few very simple principles, that you don't have to eliminate bowl games just because there's a playoff, and that the two teams in the final game aren't playing that many more games than the other 117 or so teams in the FBS/D-1.
The JCS (Justin Championship Series):
The JCS is founded on an eleven game regular season, in which every conference has a Conference Championship Game (CCG) including the mid-majors. The CCGs serve as a first-round of the playoffs in the JCS, eliminating many "on the cusp" teams and pretenders.
The JCS Conferences: Big East, North 12 (Big 10/11), Pac 12 (10), Big 12, ACC, SEC
The JCS Playoff structure allows in 8-teams, the six JCS Conf. winners plus two at-large bids. The JCS Formula will determine the at-large teams and the seeding of the playoffs for each round.
The JCS Formula:
AP Poll Ranking + Coaches Poll Ranking + (Total D1 Teams/Total D1 Teams-SOS Ranking) - Losses = Total
Thus Ohio State would be ranked 1+1+(119/119-75=2.70)-1= 1+1+-1=3.7 And LSU would be ranked 2+2+(119/119-57=1.19)-2=3.91
JCS Post-Season Schedule:
December- Week 1- Conference Championship Games December Week 2- Round 1 December Week 3- Round 2 December Week 4- Round 3 (Championship Game and Rose Bowl Game)
The JCS Playoff:
The JCS Round 1 games are broken into the JCS Formula seeds, and the match-ups are below. For the teams that make a bowl game, or that make the playoffs, this is at most their 13th game.
Round 1 (location of highest seed) 1 vs 8 2 vs 7 3 vs 6 4 vs 5
The Round 2 games are played at traditional bowl sites ie. Orange/Sugar/Fiesta. The match-ups are below. The seeds are re-formulated based on the JCS.
Round 2 1 vs 4 Fiesta/Orange/Sugar 2 vs 3 Fiesta/Orange/Sugar
The Round 3 games ie. the Rose Bowl and National Title game, are played in Round 3. The Rose bowl will host the highest ranked Pac 12 team that isn't in the playoffs versus the highest ranked North 12 team that isn't in the playoffs.
Round 3 Rose Bowl Game: Pac 12 vs North 12 1 vs 2 Fiesta/Orange/Sugar (National Title game)
This JCS System is the most fair system on the market. The only entity that gets slighted is the Rose Bowl Game, but they favor this slight anyway because they love tradition.
