Playoff on the way in 2014???

[Carl Spackler]

Any use of the word "playoff" that does NOT involve the winners of every 1-A conference, EVERY conference, is not a true playoff, and is just a bastardization of the word by BCS officials trying to appease the fan and media backlash to the crappy system in recent years.

A format that does not involve MINIMUM, the 11 existing conference winners (10 if the Big Mac forms), is not a true playoff.

I would make it a 16 team format. 12 conference winners (obviously involves some re-organization of the landscape to create 12 conferences).....and then 4 at large bids determined by annually appointed NCAA selection committee.

First round starts second saturday of December features 8 games, 4 games third saturday of december. Semi's on fourth saturday in December. Championship game first Saturday in january.

That's 14 NCAA playoff games in the month of december + 1 championship game first saturday in January.

Run an invitation bowl system concurrently. Half of the toilet bowls would go down the drain, and you'd have 15-20 decent bowl games + 14 playoff games and a TRUE national championship game.

It's got to get done.

 

[SubbaBub]

Given the constraints of the academic calendar, the maximum number of playoff teams is 8.

There are only 3 weeks available after the conference championships. The week before Final Exams, the week after Xmas, and the week after NYD.

We are more likely to get fewer 1-A conferences than more playoff spots.




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[Marty Jackson]

The very nature of the BCS keeps 80% of the revenues with the top 6 conferences (40% of the colleges or something like that). The next proposal is not going to go backwards for the powers that be.
In anything that is proposed, you will see that 80% go up or the 40% go down.
Never will we have a college championship where Ohio State, LSU, and a team like Buffalo start the season on equal footing.
The Big East is the first carcass to be picked off. Then you'll see the ACC or Big 12 jockey for the coveted 4th super conference. The strength of the ACC and Big 12 will be tested when the SEC or Pac12 come calling. Whoever is successfully poached first will lose and begin the slow death ride the Big East is currently experiencing. Sure the league may survive, but the perception of being a weaker conference will put that league into the group of have-not's (exactly what is happening to the Big East) and diminish their bargaining power...
Until the next set of rules are decided, doubt the Big 3 will make any moves. but, guaranteed, the next set of rules will only serve to benefit a smaller group of schools.