The arguement: the current system of the top two schools needs to be changed.
And the alternative situation is almost always a playoff system
The argument to keep this current system is
? that having a playoff system would extend the college football season: which would keep football players from focusing on their studies.
? Having a playoff would give teams that don’t deserve a championship (have many loses) to reach the championship and snub successful teams (have very few loses). Theoretical example: Appalachian State beats Michigan in the playoffs, opponents of the playoff system that Michigan is a clearly better team.
The argument to have a playoff is
? More money revenue
? The third ranked school problem. Let’s say the first, second, and third BCS ranked team are all very good, and because of the current rules, the third ranked school will not get a chance to play for the championship, even though they could potentially win.
Currently, it looks like neither side is budging, the BCS won’t put a playoff system in place, and proponents of the playoffs won’t stop asking for it.
This is my proposal:
Having a playoff system, but limiting to only four teams. This satisfies the proponents of the playoffs and it will not overly extend the college football season. Think about it: if there are four teams, there will be 2 semifinals and a final. 1st ranked plays 4th ranked, and 2nd ranked places 3rd ranked. The semifinals would take place when the current BCS championship takes place, sometime early January, and the finals would take place the week, at most two, later. This extends the college football season by a maximum of 14 days. That’s manageable isn’t it? And the top four teams are all very good teams. So the Appalachian State problem would happen.
I know what you’re thinking. “But what about 2008-2009 season? Florida played Alabama, and Bama lost, knocking down to 4th place. If a semifinal existed, Florida would just play against Bama again.” Well, I have a solution to this too. Florida would play the 3rd ranked, and Bama would play the second ranked.
So how’s my proposal? (sorry if this has already been proposed, I’m don’t know a lot about college football)
My proposed solution to the BCS Championship problem?
The current system works fine.
My proposed solution to the BCS Championship problem?
%26quot;? More money revenue%26quot; Where would you ever get that idea?
%26quot;... but limiting to only four teams.%26quot; That doesn't change anything. Who's going to determine the four teams? That's the same way it is now.
Duhhh.
If ur going 2 have a playoff system let it be between the top 8 teams. Not Just any random teams
Uh...Thats nothing new...Thats what BCS opponents have been saying all along...Problem is, what if there are more than 4 teams that deserve consideration?...Then your system would have problems...
My view...For the national championship, they should have a playoff of the top 8 or top 12 teams...some kind of average of the positions of the top 8 or top 12 in the AP, coaches, and computer polls after the final regular season game...
The former I-AA division manages to do it by a playoff system...It works pretty well...It isn't that hard...
The current system is flawed and every college football fan knows this. Division 2 and 3 both have playoffs and they still have finals to take so why can't division 1. If you take the top ten teams and make a playoff then the team in the 11th spot may have an arguement,if you take the top 12 for a playoff then the 13th team will have an arguement. My solution is take the top 10 teams and make all news years day bowl games and the BCS bowls has playoff sites and have the national championship game the winners of the last two bowls. Have all teams play a 10 game season and keep the lower tier bowls for the other teams,keeps those money hungry Ad's happy. I'm sure i'm wrong to or maybe someone out there can tweak my idea but to me that seems logical
Easy answer is a playoff, but how do you convince the big schools to agree when they are getting all the money? They have no motivation to change and share with the little guys. So my answer is this, create another division, call it the Bowl Division, like Super Division I, let them keep the BCS, then let the other small conferences compete in a playoff for there own title. Here's the kicker, make it like premier leagues and the worse teams drops from the top and the best rise up to the upper level.
I like bowl games those teams that barely make it sometimes make it a good game
Your proposal has already been suggested by the SEC. It's called a plus one system and it was rejected by all the other conferences. There doesn't seem to be an easy solution. There are over one hundred years of tradition in the Bowl System in college. It will be difficult to convince anyone to do anything that takes away from that. A playoff system would eliminate the Bowls and that will never happen. At least not in this lifetime.
Forget the rankings, just do a 12 team playoff with 1 against 12, 2 against 11, and so on. Base who gets in only on their record, not their ranking. To keep the bowl games, have the teams that don't make it to the final and teams with good records that didn't make the playoffs play the bowl games.
What Bam Bam said. They already proposed that. While playoffs would be good for college football, it would also take the magic away from the regular season. Then when perfection is on the line, some team rests there starters and gets smoked by San Jose State. How does that sound? Even playoffs would bring controversy to college football.
A 6-Team playoff is the best solution.
Week 1:
3 vs. 6
4 vs. 5
(1 and 2 have a bye-week)
Week 2:
1 vs. winner of 4v5
2 vs. winner of 3v6
Week 3:
National Championship Game.
The best part about this system is that there will always be 5 games. There are currently 5 annual BCS bowls. The 4 playoff games will remain the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Sugar Bowl, then the national championship will be on a 4 year rotaion among those just as it is now. The bowl games stay in place, just in a playoff format now.
