Confessions of a Theoholic

Monday, November 07, 2011

My College Football Playoff Proposal

I hate the BCS (even though in its current format it might allow Alabama back into the National Championship Game despite beating themselves against LSU). So below is my college football proposal that would incorporate the BCS, the BCS Bowl Games, and a playoff format.

Using the BCS formula, the top SIX teams would enter into the National Championship Playoff System. The 6th ranked team would play the 5th ranked team. The winner would play the 4th ranked team. That winner would play the 1st ranked team. Numbers 2 and 3 would face each other. The winner of that game plus the winner of #1 vs. 6 or 5 or 4 would face each other in the National Championship game.  I will use the current standings to illustrate my proposal. 

Oklahoma would play Boise State.  The winner of that game would play Stanford. The winner of that game would play LSU.
Alabama would play Oklahoma St. The winner of this game would play the winner of the LSU game in the national championship game.  (I would draw a picture but that would be too hard in blogger).

The advantage of this system is that this playoff system only uses 5 games to determine the national champion. How many BCS bowl games are there right now? 5 (Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Rose, BCS Championship). That means you could keep the bowl games as part of the playoff system (the higher ranked team would be the "home-field advantage" team). It uses the current system but incorporates a playoff structure which is what everybody (even the President and Congress) really want to see.
It also makes it more difficult but possible for the 6th ranked team to play for the national championship. I mean if wild cards can win World Series' and Super Bowls, then why not #6 in the BCS?  This would allow us to see if Alabama could beat OK St. This would give Oklahoma a chance at redemption to play their way to a championship. Even Boise St. and Stanford would be in it.

You could even vary this proposed structure so that #6 plays #5 and the winner plays #1, while #4 plays #3 and the winner plays #2. The winner of 1 vs. 6/5  would play the winner of 2 vs. 3/4.  In this illustration, the winner of Oklahoma and Boise St. would play LSU while the winner of Stanford and Alabama would play Oklahoma St. The winners of those games would play each other for the national championship. This is the same format the NFL uses and it's still only 5 games which could be the bowl games.

This way multiple undefeated teams and strong 1-loss teams all get a chance to play for the championship. Let the top-tier teams settle it on the field, not by computers and humans. I mean, isn't that what happens in the regular season?

I realize that this system moves the argument back from who should be #2 in the BCS (if there is 1 undefeated team and a bunch of 1-loss teams) to who should be #6, but really, is anybody going to care about that as much as they care about who should be #2?

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