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BCS Playoff Idea..
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This is my plan for the first NCAA Football Championship Playoff. There are 6 BCS conferences. There are also 5 conferences that are classified as NCAA FBS Div 1-A plus
the Div 1-A independents which would make six Non-BCS
conferences.
BCS: ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC
Non-BCS: CUSA, MAC, Mt. West, Sunbelt, WAC, and
Div-1A Independents.
My tournament field consists of the twelve conference champions plus 3 At Large teams ( the 3 highest ranked BCS conference teams that didn't win their conference).
The eleven actual conferences would be required to play a championship game to determine their representative
and the Independents representative would just be the highest ranked team of the four schools. The only path for a Non-BCS team to the championship is through a Play-In round. Even an undefeated Notre Dame would have to go the Play-in game route.
The top 9 seeds are reserved for only BCS conference teams. The top 4 seeds, which are awarded a first round bye are reserved for the highest ranked BCS Conference Champions. This years field, with a little guess work for the Non-BCS teams, would look like this.
1) Oklahoma Big 12 Champ
2) Florida SEC Champ
3) USC PAC 10 Champ
4) Penn State Big Ten Champ
5) Texas At Large
6) Alabama At Large
7) Texas Tech At Large
8) Cincinnati Big East Champ
9) Va. Tech ACC Champ
10) Utah Mt. West Champ
11) Boise St. WAC Champ
12) E. Carolina CUSA Champ
13) Buffalo MAC Champ
14) Troy Sunbelt Champ
15) Navy Div 1A Independent
Now the game sites and dates. There will be no teams hosting games at their own stadium, this isn't women's basketball. The three Play-In games and the four first round games will all be played at Indoor Stadiums. The starting dates are set for after classroom finals are completed.
Now, here is where the BCS bowls get tossed their bone.
After the first round is completed, the field is down to eight. The four Qtr-Final games will be played at the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta bowls on New Years Day. The Bowls get to select, in some order, the home team for their bowl from the top four seeds that got a first round bye. The Semi-final and final games will be rotated annually between these same four bowl sites.
With the predetermined sites, the NCAA could book the hotels in advance for the teams relieving them of that headache with so little time in between rounds.
The BCS bowls shouldn't have a problem. They're maintaing a strong resemblance to their traditional New Years Day match-ups and their getting an extra high dollar final four game 3 out of every 4 years. Lots of TV money to go around from this one. Think what programs like buffalo and their conference could do with the TV revenue from possibly two games. This plan gives every conference champ a shot. The NCAA basketball tourney wouldn't be half as fun without the cinderellas. This would also free up seven smaller bowl invitations for other programs with exceptions to the 6 win requirement necessary I'm sure. The attached PDF file shows the brackets.
Tell me what you think.
the Div 1-A independents which would make six Non-BCS
conferences.
BCS: ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10, and SEC
Non-BCS: CUSA, MAC, Mt. West, Sunbelt, WAC, and
Div-1A Independents.
My tournament field consists of the twelve conference champions plus 3 At Large teams ( the 3 highest ranked BCS conference teams that didn't win their conference).
The eleven actual conferences would be required to play a championship game to determine their representative
and the Independents representative would just be the highest ranked team of the four schools. The only path for a Non-BCS team to the championship is through a Play-In round. Even an undefeated Notre Dame would have to go the Play-in game route.
The top 9 seeds are reserved for only BCS conference teams. The top 4 seeds, which are awarded a first round bye are reserved for the highest ranked BCS Conference Champions. This years field, with a little guess work for the Non-BCS teams, would look like this.
1) Oklahoma Big 12 Champ
2) Florida SEC Champ
3) USC PAC 10 Champ
4) Penn State Big Ten Champ
5) Texas At Large
6) Alabama At Large
7) Texas Tech At Large
8) Cincinnati Big East Champ
9) Va. Tech ACC Champ
10) Utah Mt. West Champ
11) Boise St. WAC Champ
12) E. Carolina CUSA Champ
13) Buffalo MAC Champ
14) Troy Sunbelt Champ
15) Navy Div 1A Independent
Now the game sites and dates. There will be no teams hosting games at their own stadium, this isn't women's basketball. The three Play-In games and the four first round games will all be played at Indoor Stadiums. The starting dates are set for after classroom finals are completed.
Now, here is where the BCS bowls get tossed their bone.
After the first round is completed, the field is down to eight. The four Qtr-Final games will be played at the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta bowls on New Years Day. The Bowls get to select, in some order, the home team for their bowl from the top four seeds that got a first round bye. The Semi-final and final games will be rotated annually between these same four bowl sites.
With the predetermined sites, the NCAA could book the hotels in advance for the teams relieving them of that headache with so little time in between rounds.
The BCS bowls shouldn't have a problem. They're maintaing a strong resemblance to their traditional New Years Day match-ups and their getting an extra high dollar final four game 3 out of every 4 years. Lots of TV money to go around from this one. Think what programs like buffalo and their conference could do with the TV revenue from possibly two games. This plan gives every conference champ a shot. The NCAA basketball tourney wouldn't be half as fun without the cinderellas. This would also free up seven smaller bowl invitations for other programs with exceptions to the 6 win requirement necessary I'm sure. The attached PDF file shows the brackets.
Tell me what you think.
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TMHoosierVol,
That's a heck of a lot of work going into that.
The real problem with any sort of playoff system is any that would draw a distinction between conferences or types of conferences that would put them on remotely unequal footing. Creating a system that involves small conference champions having to fight an uphill battle against each other for the apparent privilege of going against a larger champion (or at-large) that's been resting at home for a week or two would be a quick way to land all involved parties in court.
The only real feasible way would involve this:
1) All conference champions get in (11 teams)
2) Everyone is on equal footing (all eligible teams play each round)
That's a heck of a lot of work going into that.
The real problem with any sort of playoff system is any that would draw a distinction between conferences or types of conferences that would put them on remotely unequal footing. Creating a system that involves small conference champions having to fight an uphill battle against each other for the apparent privilege of going against a larger champion (or at-large) that's been resting at home for a week or two would be a quick way to land all involved parties in court.
The only real feasible way would involve this:
1) All conference champions get in (11 teams)
2) Everyone is on equal footing (all eligible teams play each round)
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