Perfect time for NCAA to get organized?

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I didn't want a playoff system because it would interrupt traditions, but with all of the conference changes on the horizon, they're getting thrown out the window anyway (ex: possibility of a Nebraska vs. Colorado Rose Bowl as Big10/Pac10 Champs?!). Since everything is changing anyway, why not create 4 conferences of 16 teams (Big10, Pac10, SEC, and the leftovers) with automatic bids to an 8 team playoff. The other 4 would be at large for Boise State type teams or great runner-up teams. College Football has been permenantly changed anyway, we may as well roll with it. Thoughts?
 

This idea is well intentioned, but destroys the one thing that makes college football, in my opinion, better than any other sport.

In college football every single week is playoff week. Every week teams see their chance at a NC eliminated. Starting early in the conference season every week sees teams stay alive in the conference race or virtually elminate themselves from contention.

That is why every single Saturday is absolutely electric. The NFL regular season is boring because teams can win 9 out of 16 games and still win the super bowl. College basketball is only interesting close to tournament time, because the regular season is largely worthless. The same is true of the NBA, MLB, NHL, etc.

There should be no discussion of anything more than a +1. If college football goes to an 8 team or more playoff it will eliminate the most intriguing and unique aspect of the sport.
 

An 8 team tournament, with conference champions participating only, would highlight and preserve the importance of the regular season. Win your conference or stay home (or go to a bowl game), no wild cards. It would eliminate the possibility of a team that didn't even win its own conference playing for the national championship.

It's said that every game is a playoff game in college football, but you can win all of your games and still not play for the national championship. At least under the old system, the #3 team still had a chance, if #1 and #2 lost their bowl games.

Changes to national championships aren't anything new. Prior to the 30's, it was a wild west, with pretty much anyone able to hand one out. Then we had the polls, after the season, but before the bowl games. Then we had the polls after the bowl games, which turned the bowl games from a glorified exhibition game into the key game of the season. Then we had the BCS, which matched #1 and #2, but left out teams that had a legitimate claim to be the best.

People talk about preserving the value of the regular season, and to do that, we need an 8 team playoff. Opening round at the higher seeded team's home site, this would give added incentive to keep playing hard. Losses would drop a team's seeding, or drop them out of the tournament altogether - in an 8 team tournament, if there are more than 8 conferences, then only the top 8 champions go.
 

An 8 team play-off would do nothing to destroy the regular season. One loss would still be enough to kill most teams chances and 2 losses would be a sure knock-out. How much more 'meaning' do you need? An 8 team field with the 6 conference champions and 2 Wild Cards would work fine. Have stipulations that allow an undefeated Boise or ND in if they have a BCS ranking above 12th.
 

howeda7 said:
An 8 team play-off would do nothing to destroy the regular season. One loss would still be enough to kill most teams chances and 2 losses would be a sure knock-out. How much more 'meaning' do you need? An 8 team field with the 6 conference champions and 2 Wild Cards would work fine. Have stipulations that allow an undefeated Boise or ND in if they have a BCS ranking above 12th.
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Boise would be in a conference, so they wouldn't need a stipulation, they would just have to win the Mountain West. The NCAA should tell ND to join a conference to conform to the system or you're out.
 


Nope, plus 1 with the four top teams is the absolute limit. Anything more is too much.

Do you people really want to devalue the Rose Bowl. As a Gopher fan all I care about is one day watching the Gophers play in the Rose Bowl. Anything else destroys the most sacred tradition of Big Ten football.
 

AhliBobwa said:
Nope, plus 1 with the four top teams is the absolute limit. Anything more is too much.
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How about the top four conference champions? This would strengthen the regular season and conference championships.
 

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