|
Every major sport in college and the pros have a playoff to decide the national champion except NCAA Division 1-A Football. Why is this? Because people are emotional over their bowls. I went to Michigan State, i like the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, but I would be more then happy to see it all go away for a reasonable playoff system.
Here is my silly playoff system:
Take the top 25 teams (determined by the BCS computer)
The top seven teams get a bye.
Round One - teams 8-25 play (18 games, 9 winners)
Round Two - teams 1-7 play against the winners of 8-25 (16 games, 8 winners) -
Round Three - 8 games, 4 winners
Round Four - 4 games, 2 winners
Round Five - National Championship Game
If Gonzaga can go to the final four in hoops, why not TCU in football? A school from a minor conference would have to win 5 games against top schools to win the championship. If they can do that, I say they deserve it.
To make this work, I would put in other changes. All teams must play exactly 12 games and one bye week. An example of this years schedule would look like this:
Michigan State
Sept 4 -- Western Michigan
Sept 11 -- Louisiana Tech
Sept 18 -- Notre Dame
Sept 27 -- Bye
Oct 4 -- Iowa
Oct 11 -- Indiana
Oct 18 -- Illinois
Oct 25 -- Minnesota
Nov 1 -- Michigan
Nov 8 -- Ohio State
Nov 15 -- Wisconsin
Nov 22 -- Another Conference game or Conference Championship
Nov 29 -- Round One Playoffs
Dec 6 -- Round Two Playoffs
Dec 13 -- Round Three Playoffs
Dec 20 -- Round Four Playoffs
Jan 1 -- National Championship Game
The playoffs games would be played where the bowl games are played now. You could alternate the national championship game between the four major bowls just like you do now. I dont want to hear about how they cant do this because of classes, cause that is crap. Half of these players are not there for class anyways, and division 1-aa playoffs went until dec 19th.
|