What would happen if College Football had a Playoff?

by user False Prophet

So a while back, I created this proposal for a college football playoff system. So now that we are done with the season, this is what it would look like if we used this instead of the crappy BCS. I went back, and added in the results so far this year, and am posting this now before the conference championship games this next week. There is one change though, all 6 BCS Conferences(Big 10, Big 12, SEC, ACC, Big East, Pac 10) are recieving a bid instead of just the big 4(Big 10, SEC, Big 12, Pac 10). This was changed upon the request of a few users who commented on the proposal.

So here is how the seeding played out:

• Big 10 No. 1 vs. Big 10 No. 2 (Game 1)
• At Large Bid No. 2 vs. At Large Bid No. 3 (Game 2)

• Big East No. 1 vs. Big East No. 2 (Game 3)
• Big 12 South vs. Big 12 North (Game 4)

• Pac 10 No. 1 vs. Pac 10 No. 2 (Game 5)
• At Large Bid No. 1 vs At Large Bid No. 4 (Game 6)

• SEC East vs. SEC West (Game 7)
• ACC Atlantic vs. ACC Costal (Game 8)

The Only problems that arise from this is that the Pac 10 gets the Second Seed this year. This is solved because either USC wins and advances as the True Second seed, or Cal wins, and the reseeding steps in and lowers them to the bottom of the conference champions seeding. Notre Dame gets snubbed, but with only 4 at-large teams getting a bid, then they suffer from having two losses.

So here's what you can do. Below, you can enter who you think will win each round, just create a section below and use the below format to cast your vote for each round's winner. The Voting will close Friday, at 11 PM CST.

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1. Winning team OVER losing team
2. Winning team OVER losing team
3. Winning team OVER losing team
4. Winning team OVER losing team
5. Winning team OVER losing team
6. Winning team OVER losing team
7. Winning team OVER losing team
8. Winning team OVER losing team

Voting

False Prophet

1. Michigan OVER OSU
2. Wisconsin OVER Auburn
3. Rutgers OVER Louisville
4. Oklahoma OVER Nebraska
5. USC OVER Cal
6. Boise St. OVER Arkansas
7. LSU OVER Florida
8. Wake Forest OVER Georgia Tech

DNL

1. OSU over Michigan
2. Auburn over Wisconsin
3. Louisvile over Rutgers
4. Nebraska over Oklahoma
5. USC over Cal
6. Boise State over ARkansas
7. LSU over Florida
8. Wake Forest over GTech

Sports_Writer06

1. Michigan OVER Ohio State
2. Wisconsin OVER Auburn
3. Louisville OVER Rutgers
4. Oklahoma OVER Nebraska
5. USC OVER Cal
6. Arkansas OVER Boise State
7. Florida OVER LSU
8. Georgia Tech OVER Wake Forest

jgov05

1. Ohio State over Michigan
2. Auburn over Wisconsin
3. Louisville over Rutgers
4. Oklahoma over Nebraska
5. USC over Cal
6. Arkansas over Boise State
7. Florida over LSU
8. Wake Forest over GT

The Beast

1. Ohio State over Michigan
2. Wisconsin over Auburn
3. Louisville over Rutgers
4. Oklahoma over Nebraska
5. USC over Cal
6. Boise State over Arkansas
7. Florida over LSU
8. Wake Forest over GT

'skers 'pert

1. Ohio State over Michigan
2. Auburn over Wisconsin
3. Louisville over Rutgers
4. Oklahoma over Nebraska
5. USC over Cal
6. Boise State over Arkansas
7. LSU over Florida
8. Georgia Tech over Wake Forest

DNLLegend

1104 days ago

Score 3

Why give so many teams an extra bite? I'd take the champs of each BCS conference, two non-BCS conference champ/indys. The bracket would be set to give traditionalists their bowl games, too: the SEC champ would go to the Sugar Bowl, the Pac10 and Big10 to the Rose, the Big12 to the Fiesta, and I guess you'd have the others filter in.

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False ProphetAll-Star

1104 days ago

Score 0

just for ease of scheduling, 14 teams would create a problem, as only the top conference would get a bye, giving that game's winner to big of an advantage

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False ProphetAll-Star

1104 days ago

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I prefer the straight seeding as well, and the two semi finals, the Championship game, and the 3rd place game would rotate between the 4 BCS Bowls. I suppose you could rotate the new year's eve bowl games for the rest of them. I'll think about that and work on it this week

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DNLLegend

1103 days ago

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My system is 8 teams: Big East champ, ACC champ, Big 12 champ, Big Ten champ, Pac 10 champ, SEC champ, top rated (BCS rating) non-BCS school, and some other school. The "other" is a problem -- I'm not sure if I'd take the #2 rated non-BCS school (so long as it is from a diff conf as the #1 rated) or if I'd take the top rated remaining BCS school in general.

Then I'd do the first round of the tournament such that the "traditional" matchups were intact. So, this year, round one would be:

Rose Bowl -- OSU v. USC Orange Bowl -- Rutgers/L'ville v. Wake/G'Tech Sugar -- SEC champ v. "Other" Fiesta -- Boise State v. Big 12 champ

Those games would be played on 1/1 and 1/2 (or 1/3 if need be). They'd be the actual bowl games.

The same stadiums would host the "BCS Semifinals," "BCS Consolation Game," and "BCS Championship Game," like this year, in subsequent weeks. Which stadium hosted which game would rotate. The matchups for the Semifinals (e.g. Rose v. Orange) would also rotate on an annual basis. There'd be no seeding whatsoever.

This year, it'd mean eight games which, individually, would bring in more money than we could otherwise imagine.

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The sharkDraft Pick

1103 days ago

Score 2

I agree with the 8 teams idea. 16 seems too many.

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The sharkDraft Pick

1103 days ago

Score 0

This proposal is at least as flawed as the BCS becuase where is Wisconsin?? They are at worst the sixth best team in the country and they don't make your playoffs??

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The sharkDraft Pick

1103 days ago

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Oh - never mind, I missed them but they are there. Looking this over, it may actually work, but maybe with a couple of fewer teams.

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False ProphetAll-Star

1103 days ago

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you know I wouldn't let them not make it. I've been the biggest Wisconsin backer this year.

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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer

1103 days ago

Score 1

It's nice that the Michigan fans have an outlet to keep dreaming.

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False ProphetAll-Star

1103 days ago

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My thinking with picking Michigan is that Manningham will have been practicing for a few extra weeks if this was the system, and even though it would be @ OSU is that the field will have been played on a few more times and should result in a few less dropped passes. But the one's who would be happiest would be Boise St., who would get a shot at getting to the Championship game instead of praying they get a BCS Bowl bid

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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer

1102 days ago

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But if there's a few extra weeks the Buckeyes would have a chance to do a full seek and rescue mission to figure out where the heck their defense went.

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False ProphetAll-Star

1102 days ago

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so it is a tie, and then it goes to which ever team you like more

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False ProphetAll-Star

1102 days ago

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Why 16 teams? Because with 16 teams, you would institute the Conference Championship into the playoffs, so this would be the first week of the playoffs this weekend, so then after this week you will only have 8 teams

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