Comments on: A four team playoff in college football would be great, except for the teams left out http://www.footballperspective.com/a-four-team-playoff-in-college-football-would-be-great-except-for-the-teams-left-out/ NFL History and Stats Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andrew http://www.footballperspective.com/a-four-team-playoff-in-college-football-would-be-great-except-for-the-teams-left-out/#comment-4119 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:22:37 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=4616#comment-4119 No matter how you do a playoff system, someone is going to be upset. People even get upset about the NFL playoffs because division winners from bad divisions get in. I would actually like to see an 8 or 16 team playoff system just entirely replace bowl games, where all conference champs get in and all other spots are determined strictly by record. No more of these BCS computer rankings and coaches’ polls, just a straight up did-you-win-enough-games system. No frills, no fuss. he best team probably won’t win most of the time, but it will be one of the best teams and they’ll all have a shot at it for once. And yes, this would probably necessitate some governing body that would set schedules to prevent teams from just scheduling the 12 worst teams they can think of and going to the playoffs. And, because it would be run by the NCAA, it would probably be quite corrupt. but I still think it would be better than the BCS. And that’s really all anybody can hope for.

]]> By: George http://www.footballperspective.com/a-four-team-playoff-in-college-football-would-be-great-except-for-the-teams-left-out/#comment-4080 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:42:21 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=4616#comment-4080 I know someone else has suggested something like this at some point (it is referred to as a suggestion from elsewhere in Mathletics but slightly differently) but I think for the cleanest way of doing it to avoid bye’s etc. and so everyone would essentially have to play the same number of games (excluding conference championship games); take the top 8 (in an 8 plays 1, 7 plays 2 type of format) in effectively a quarter final, re-grade everyone after that round (if the result actually caused a change in ranking given the teams remaining) – 4 plays 1, 3 plays 2 in the semi and then the winners of those games play off for the National Title.

Basically you’d have an incentive to take big games rather than padding your schedule out to get strength of schedule benefits in some of the computer rankings to ensure they get a top 8 spot, potentially you wouldn’t get teams resting starters at the end of the first half (as likely the more higher ranking teams would take soft games out of the schedule if they had the opportunity to) and by taking the top 8 you would leave the door partially open the team catching the wrong end of an Oregon/Stanford kind of situation. Also when has a team outside of the top 8 been talked of as a potential National Champion (admittedly in the above scenario you would have Stanford in and Texas A&M out but could you argue either should be National Champions)?

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