Get rid of conference championship games and all bowl games. 32 team playoff based purely on rankings. No auto bids or first round byes. Higher seed gets home game. 5 weeks of beautiful chaos.
Playoff Format Proposals
- Thread starter CloniesForLife
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No conference champ games. Break P4 conferences into divisions. Expand to 16 teams. If you win your division, you're in. MWC, AAC winners get in. Fill the rest with at large. No byes. Seed 1-16 with normal bracket. High seeds get a home game all the way through the semi finals. Championship rotates to Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta and Cotton. Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........
I was curious, so based on the AP Poll (since it includes those receiving votes, here's what that bracket would look like:
SEC: 9 teams
ACC: 6 teams
Big XII: 5 teams
B1G: 5 teams
AAC: 3 teams
MW: 2 teams
Sun Belt: 1 team
Independent: 1 team
I did the same thing when I thought about it originally. I love the idea because it means basically any P4 school has a solid shot every single year to have meaningful late season games. Big12 getting 5 teams in would be amazing. ISU could easily get in 50%+ of the time then.
Also, G5 getting more teams in then Big10 just warms my heart.
**** it, why not? The CFP has already ruined enough of the sport, might as well go for broke. Make the regular season as meaningless as the NBA.
This is the obvious way to go, but like you said, never going to happen...but I would make it a 16 team playoff. Every division has 2 teams that make it.
Every postseason, your division pairs up with another division (this would be a scheduled rotation) and you play your #1 vs their #2, and their #1 vs your #2. The winners move on to the quarterfinals. From there, you could either reseed, or have the bracket built out beforehand so if both your #1 and #2 won, they would play each other. This would eliminate having more than one representative from each division in the semis.
IMO everyone wants a nice clean playoff system and it's never going to happen as long as ESPN & FOX value the media rights of the Big10 & SEC at double that of the Big12 & ACC.
About the best the Big12 & ACC can hope for is a 16 team playoff that looks like the following:
About the best the Big12 & ACC can hope for is a 16 team playoff that looks like the following:
- 4 Big10 teams
- 4 SEC teams
- 2 Big12 teams
- 2 ACC teams
- 4 highest seeds based on computer ranking with transparent criteria that aren't based on whims of a committee. And criteria encourage more quality non-con games between Big10/SEC and Big12/ACC.
