fine make it a selection board like in basketball armed with all the polls and computers and stats imagineable.
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! I don't want ANY VOTES cast for ANYONE. I want this settled on the field. Nobody is "selected" to play in my playoff situation. You earn it on the field, period. Couple of rulesc All conferences get equal billing (which is why I gave so much weight to strength of teams involved in re-alignment) every team plays exact same number of regular season games (12 works best for me). That's it, no more, no less. all conferences will play 8 conference games, and 4 non-conference games (against only D-1A). I'm a big fan of the way the SEC does their conference scheduling. This schedule will help keep the big rivalries from no-conference opponents (ND/USC, Fla/FlaSt, UGA/GT, etc.) all conferences will have a championship game (all played on the same weekend) A true strength of schedule will be used to determine seeding. I have set up a points system to determine.(*** see below) Next, the country will be divided into to "divisions" (similar to AFC/NFC) separating conferences geographically. 4 conferences per "division". 4 champs from each division have a playoff using the seeding determined by strength of schedule. After that, the 2 "division" champs meet in a True title game. ***
i dont really have a problem with them being ranked a pretty strong conference but the best overall is a joke. i think anyone outside of the fudgepac10 can agree to that. while idiots like herbie & co continue to downplay the SEC one thing came to my mind. each year its 2 or 3 of the other stronger conferences being compared to the SEC but its never the same one over time. the big 10 falls closest but the one constant seems to be the SEC is there with half the teams being in the top 20 at year's end. outside of an occasional iowa and wisci, its OSU and Michigan for the big10, USC and sometimes cal and oregon for the fudge. the acc added all these great teams and well, the U is 6-6 and FSU brings back memories of the wing-t when they have the ball. Wake Forest and Ga tech you say? thats like vandi/Ole Myth for the sec. say it aint so. p.s. i think reggie ball and casey dick could stand 20 feet apart and throw 100 footballs at each other's head and not hit each other once.
In the name of sportsmanship, I wouldn't want to encourage 60-0 blow-outs but, within reason (May help teams cover :hihi: ), to reward margins of victory something like 1/2 point per field goal, 3/4 or 1 point for each touchdown- limit 3. I don't know, I hadn't really thought about it until I saw your spread.
Maybe something along these line 1 bonus pt for 10 pt victory 2 bonus pt for 20 pt victory and cap it at that, to prevent teams from trying to win 77-7
Regarding your point system... would it be based upon each team's final record, or each team's record at the time the game is played? For example, if LSU has a 5-1 record, and beats a team with a 6-0 record, and LSU winds up finishing 11-1, while that other team finishes at 6-6. How many points would LSU get for beating them at the halfway point of the season?
It would have to be where they finish, because if not, teams would get different point amounts for the same opponent. That would be equivalent to giving USC a quality win for beating AU in '03 because they were top 5 at the time they played, but LSU wouldn't, because AU was only #13 when they played. Of course, the problem that could come up is injuries. Example: Suppose Ohio St. is rolling throught their scedule sitting like you said @ 6-0, and then lose to Iowa. The following week, Troy Smith breaks his leg on the 2nd play from scrimmage, then Tedd Ginn Jr blows out his knee on the next possession, and OSU never wins another game. Obviously the OSU team Iowa beat was completely different than the one Michigan would play the final week of the season.
I think that's the fairest way. Unfortunately, the injury bug is part of the game..... I hate to use USC as an example but they did play through some serious injury problems this year- if a team is truly "Championship caliber" they should have depth too.... Like LSU for example, we had depth at a lot of key positions and could have overcome that problem. If you could do away with "Pre-season" rankings and let all rankings out later (Like BCS) that would help that issue too..... ranked teams > or < at the beginning of the season.
