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Originally Posted by Jaxbuck
My annual playoff scenario:
-7 BCS conference champs + 5 At large teams seeded by current BCS ranking type system (teams 1-12).
- Higher seeded teams get home field for all games except NC game. [censored] the warm weather schools. Come play in Cleveland in late December and tell us its a nuetral stadium like the Rose Bowl is for USC.
-Set up brackets and week one bye's exactly like NFL.
-Rotate the NC game anuualy between the Rose, Fiesta, Orange and Sugar.
-[censored] the 13th place team and the whinning they do, they wouldn't win anyway.
-Use current Bowl system to reward players, coaches, fans and alumni of teams that had a good year but weren't top 12. There is nothing wrong in using the Bowls for rewarding a good season, just don't use them to crown a NC.
This sceanario takes monay away from the BCS Bowls and puts it back to the schools and would probably generate 5X the TV revenue. Why this would bother the University Presidents is [censored]ing beyond me.
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I know all the positives for a playoff system...and agree with a lot of them, but i'm just going to make a point on the side against a playoff here. Let's say we had a 12 team playoff, or an 8 team playoff, this year.
How big would the Ohio State/Michigan game be?
Big...but not life or death...win or lose you probably stay in the top 4...get a "home game" if that's how the playoff works...and probably face off again.
INSTEAD...in the not so perfect system we have...a PERFECT game has been given the chance to be created. #1 Ohio State vs. #2 Michigan...winner goes to the national championship game...loser doesn't.
What scares me about a playoff, or even a Big 10 chapionship game...is what it would take away from the Ohio State vs. Michigan game. True, overall a playoff would help college football...but somewhere along the line it would really screw over a tradition such as this game.
The Game is going to be the biggest ever this year because there is no conference championship, there is no playoff...this is the conference championship...this is the playoff...and it's Ohio State/Michigan.
And sure...with a playoff, every game is going to be exciting, and a lose you are done situation...but the annual Ohio State/Michigan game wouldn't have that on the line anymore...and even though it would still be Ohio State/Michigan...and it would still be huge an amazing...I like that it's the last game of the season...and I like how many years it determines whether ur going to the national championship, or to the Rose Bowl.
Bottom line is...I LOVE college football the way it is...and i'd LOVE college football if it had a playoff. I think people complain too much about there not being a playoff...because honestly, without it, college football still is as good as it gets...I hope instead of talking about how there needs to be a playoff...if this Ohio State/Michigan game ends up being #1 vs. #2...people talk about how big a game this is and how it only happens because of the way college football is.
