You may have a point.
Posted on 11/25/2007 5:03:26 PM PST by Perdogg
This time of year, we hear a lot complaining from sports writers about the BCS. There should be a holiday for this. Last night I also heard commentators complaining about the College overtime. So, since college football is broken, how do we have an equitable playoff system that objectively seeds the teams?
If we seed the BCS teams, then it's still not really fair. It would only enriched the big programs.
How do we make a college football playoff fair, that would not give more power to the sports writer? If they had the power, Notre Dame would be in it every year.
The overtime problem is easy. Play an extra quarter and at the end the of quarter (15:00 minutes), the team with most points wins. If not, the game ends in tie.
Here's an example of a (UNC Tarheels) schedule you would likely to see under a playoff system:
(SEC West V ACC Coastal) @LSU Auburn @Arkansas Miss. State @Alabama Ole Miss
ACC Schedule
Virginia Tech @Virginia Georgia Tech @Miami Duke
1 parity game (ACC Coastal V Big XII North)
@Kansas State (4th Big XII North)
Conference Championship game.
Then the playoff system would be seeded based on won/loss records of the Conference champions. Any ties in records would be based on conference v conference play, or common opponents. Then the 8 team playoff system would take place, ending with the championship game the week before the Super Bowl.
The regular season would start in late August and end the week after Thanksgiving. No more open dates, and Notre Dame would have to join a football conference or miss out.
Any ideas?
You have to do away with fixed schedules and instead make the entire season into playoffs.
Hey, they beat Duke.
The first thing that needs to start happening is to stop giving teams the same credit for winning overtime games as winning in regulation. Perhaps there needs to be a points system:
3 points for regulation win
2 points for overtime win
1 point for overtime loss
Then simply divide the number of points versus number of games played. And note, Hawaii has one overtime win, so they would not be perfect under this system. But this would be used as the tie-breaker instead of pure won-loss record.
Rule #1 for any playoff system has to include that you have to win your conference to be in any college football playoff.
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But that means, you'd better have a championship game for each conference. Don't forget, OSU didn't have to play Wisconsin last year. If the Big Ten had a Championship Game, they would have met.
1 point for best cheerleaders
1/2 point for best band
Well then you might as well hand the trophy over to Missouri.
Do not forget the Big East and other conferences.
all conferences would be represented, but you would have to win to qualify.
I agree with Fkabuckeyesrule - conference winners play each other.
You got a good idea in itself. Also we may have to try out what the college basketball does in March, the famous bracket system.
You may have a point.
And so do they. ;)
You could start with an &1 system. Take the top 2 Bowls and let the winners play. At least that way you could have the top 4 selected.
Go Wounded Ducks
I agree, but how do you seed the teams?? Does this mean that independents, such as Notre Dame, don’t qualify because they are not in a conference?
How does Division I-AA do their playoffs?
I dunno. I’ve always favored Tennessee’s cheerleading squad. Hey, how about a cheerleaders playoffs? How would that work?
Thong centers.
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