I think it's a lot easier to justify leaving the #9 team out than it is leaving the #5 team out.
‘We don’t need to wait another six years’: College football leaders ready to discuss eight-team Play
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I think it's a lot easier to justify leaving the #9 team out than it is leaving the #5 team out.
Definitely like conference winners getting auto-bids because it removes committee bias. However, conferences should then be required to remove division formats and match up their top two teams. I don't want to see a 4 loss northwestern/pitt team slipping in because they were in a weak division and upset the best team in their conference. Also a firm believer that any undefeated FBS school gets an autobid. Don't care if they are in the SunBelt. If they won all their games, they get a chance. Its not like it happens that frequently. Even Boise State seems to accumulate at least 1 loss every year.
We say that but every year I hear a huge uproar about some #1 seed in the NIT being left out of the NCAA tourney which fields 68 teams. Just think the complaining will always be there. I can live with an 8 team playoff, but I would be really disappointed if it ever grew beyond that.
Why not totally realign college football so that all 130 FBS teams are organized into balanced and generally similarly competitive "conferences or divisions" of 13 teams (10 confernces/divisions)? All teams in the conference/division play each other. Winner of each conference/division gets auto bid to playoff. Top 6 conference winners by some BCS-type formula get first round byes and the others play a first round.
Yes, that does away with some rivalries, but tradition has been moot for years.
I also like the way the NFL re-brackets their playoffs after each round. Seems as though college football could do the same.
Yes, that does away with some rivalries, but tradition has been moot for years.
I also like the way the NFL re-brackets their playoffs after each round. Seems as though college football could do the same.
Just add the first round of the playoffs after conference championship weekend. 1 game Friday night and 3 on Saturday. Army/Navy moves to the first game of season instead of the last. Losers get sent to the NY6.
It would only add one more game for 2 teams.
It would only add one more game for 2 teams.
And while we are possibly changing the playoff and all of college football, let's also change the requirements for being an FBS school. Maybe average home attendance should move up to 25k or 30k from 15k and then there would be something like 75 teams (and Kansas would probably be like 75th). That may be a way to make for 8 conferences of 9 or 10 teams. All with conference champs with auto bids to an 8 team playoff.
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I am happy we are talking, but I don't think they are going far enough. To be fair I think it needs to be 16. The G5 has to have a better shot at competing in the tournament, or what is the point of them being in FCS football? If you want an 8 team playoff, the P5 should break away from FCS and form their own thing.
Plus in my opinion, more college football is better than less college football. So maybe I am being selfish.
Plus in my opinion, more college football is better than less college football. So maybe I am being selfish.
Round 1
#5 seed Georgia vs 12 seed Fresno State
#6 Ohio State vs 11 Penn State
#7 Michigan vs 10 Florida
# 8 UCF vs 9 Washington
Round 2
winner of Georgia/Fresno vs Oklahoma
Winner of Ohio State/Penn State vs Notr Dame
Winner of Michigan/Florida vs Clemson
Winner of UCF/ Washington vs Alabama
#5 seed Georgia vs 12 seed Fresno State
#6 Ohio State vs 11 Penn State
#7 Michigan vs 10 Florida
# 8 UCF vs 9 Washington
Round 2
winner of Georgia/Fresno vs Oklahoma
Winner of Ohio State/Penn State vs Notr Dame
Winner of Michigan/Florida vs Clemson
Winner of UCF/ Washington vs Alabama
Not a bad idea at all here, but why not have the #1 seed play the lowest remaining seed in round 2? With a week or more between games, a basketball-like bracket is not really needed.
I'd have a hard time moving that Army/Navy game. Play the others around it if you want but that is one tradition I tune in for every year. That just screams cold weather game. It's also well suited to their playing style.
the biggest issue with 4 is that regardless of what the committee says, preseason rankings have way too much of an impact. That's the biggest reason we see the same teams over and over again. A team could be better than say, Bama or Clemson in every measurable category, play a tougher schedule etc..but if they don't finish with a better record, they'll never unseat teams like that.
Maybe move it to Thanksgiving night then? Idk. It needs to stand alone, but there is a reason the game is played on a weekend where no other teams play.
I like the 8 team playoff but please include the top FCS school. Part of what makes March Madness fun is the potential for the Davids to defeat the Goliaths. If you're the number 8 P5 team that means you didn't win your conference so you have no real claim to ***** about someone else getting in with an undefeated season.
Edit, Meant G5 school, not FCS. Brain fart.
Edit, Meant G5 school, not FCS. Brain fart.
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The 8 team playoff needs to guarantee a spot for at least one G5 team. I think just for competitive fairness every team needs to know they have a chance to win a national title.. That's not the case now, and its kind of ridiculous.
5 P5 winners.
1 G5
2 At large, which could include a 2nd G5 or independents.
5 P5 winners.
1 G5
2 At large, which could include a 2nd G5 or independents.
