This year, using the flawed BCS numbers and the playoff I created (I also have a rating system but I haven't time to run the numbers this season), we'd have... 1 01 11-1 Ohio St (B10 Champ) 2 02 11-2 LSU (SEC Champ) 3 03 11-2 Virginia Tech (ACC Champ) 4 04 11-2 Oklahoma (B12 Champ) 5 10 12-0 Hawaii (WAC Champ) The teams left out would be... 05 10-2 Georgia (SEC) 06 11-2 Missouri (B12) 07 10-2 USC (P10 Champ) 08 11-1 Kansas (B12) 09 10-2 W Virginia (BE Champ) 11 10-2 Arizona St (P10) 17 10-2 BYU (MWC Champ) 30 10-3 UCF (CUSA Champ) -- 08-4 Navy (IND Champ) -- 08-5 C Michigan (MAC Champ) -- 07-5 Florida Atl (SB Champ) Georgia and Missouri were left out because they weren't conference champions. USC and BCS/IND teams below them were left out (champ or not) because only the top 6 BCS/IND teams are eligible. BYU and nonBCS teams below them were left out (champ or not) because only the top 12 nonBCS teams are eligible. Is this fair to Georgia, Missouri, Kansas, USC, W Virginia, et al? I'd think USC would be the biggest controversy, but I'm curious to hear what you think.
I think if LSU was in a playoff this year we would not make it to the end. The month off will allow our guys to heal up...
you beat me to it, not sure how long something like that would take, but you would you want to have to have some kind of lay off period to allow teams to come in with some rest? Or would you prefer to have a hot team and run straight through the tourney?
It's been a while since I wrote this up and I don't have the document with me, but basically Hawaii would play Oklahoma a week or two after the conference championships, at Oklahoma, and then a 4 team playoff would start with the remaining teams during the bowl season. I think I had two weeks between each round to make travel easier for fans (and to allow teams to rest and plan). LSU wouldn't be playing until at least the middle of December, I'd aim for two weekends before the championship game. I have a flexible playoff that would change each year, but I wouldn't go above 8 teams which makes for a maximum of three rounds and I would probably wouldn't go lower than 4 teams (though I feel like in some instances probably less than 4 teams should be considered, so I could reduce the minimum to 2 teams). It works because the first round is at the home stadium of the higher rated team. TV would be able to work with the possibility of a game because they are able to work around NBA and MLB playoff games that may or may not take place.
There could be 8 playoff teams, but I would not want to make it any more than that. Eight teams would allow the BCS and other major bowls to function as playoff bowls.
Hey Buddy. We don't want to make a quarterfinal round consist of bowl games because the attendance would suffer. But I agree we don't want to go over 8 teams. Do you think what I proposed would go over well, or would the nation dis it because USC and Georgia were left out?
