Reasons why we don't have a playoff

Invest in a supa nice big screen HDTV.

 

Tens of thousands would also like to drive a Ferrari but do not have the means. What can we do for them... If its that important to you/them, don't send your kids to college that year cause you spent it all on bowl tickets.:grin:

 

Every sport on earth has it wrong. We should just vote for the best team and not waste time with all these silly playoffs.

We can cancel the NFL playoffs and vote the Pats #1. Don't bother with the NCAA tourney and just vote Duke or UNC #1. It would make life so much better!

 

A semi-playoff determined by the current BCS formula top 4/8 (16 pushing it but doable).

Incoporate whatever traditional/big money bowls in whatever round-robin profit-sharing format they choose.

Either force all conferences to play a championship or eliminate them. The number of teams is irrelevant.

The cross conference wild card concept is intriguing but might be overkill.

Seats will be filled in stadiums (by fans of the sport if not the team) and people will watch TV because that's what America does best. The total proceeds will not be less and may even be greater but the sharing will be based on what your conference earns. Every regular season game still counts, what planet are you from (rhetorical, please don't answer)? The education of our players will not suffer. The Easter bunny and Santa will live peacefully together.

I'm spent,
Fur

 

Ferrari doesn't depend on those tens of thousands to support itself (which is why they don't build anywhere near that amount of any model). College football on the other hand, has hundreds of years of fan support and tradition making it the success that it is today.

Also, Ferrari wasn't "available" to the average Joe for a century, then suddenly, "sorry, but fudge you, we're pricing you out of it".

 

Attending a bowl game is a luxury. Your devotion to a team, albiet noteworthy is completely subjective and therefore can not be measured against mine or by the school/conference. Therefore you cannot and should not be compensated for it. The anology stands true, even if you don't like it.:thumb:

 

The best way to do a playoff AND keep the current bowl system in tact is to take the 4 winners of the BCS bowls and put them in a 2 game playoff. This way, the regular season still means something, bowls are in tact, and NC is crowned on the field.

There would still be some controversy over the at large bids, but that would all be forgotten at game time.

Does anybody see anything wrong with this scenario?

 

That is a valid point.

I posted this on another forum and someone pointed out that this format would push college games well into the NFL playoffs which is something that I'm sure neither the NFL nor the NCAA Conferences want to deal with splitting an audience.

Perhaps the Bowl games could remain separate and the "final eight" teams could mimic the I-AA schools and play home and away according to the seed and the current BCS Bowl locations would continue to rotate the Championship game?

In other words...

Round 1
Game One: Seed #1 vs Seed #8 (at Seed #1)
Game Two: Seed #2 vs Seed #7 (at Seed #2)
Game Three: Seed #3 vs Seed #6 (at Seed #3)
Game Four: Seed #4 vs Seed #5 (at Seed #4)

Round 2
Winner of Game One vs Winner of Game Four (at higher seed)
Winner of Game Two vs Winner of Game Three (at higher seed)

Championship Game
Rotate between current BCS Bowl locations

Current BCS Bowls would retain the same agreements with the same conferences, although you'll see less and less of the Conf Champs playing in those Bowl games as they'll be in the "Final Eight" tourney. The "Final Eight" tourney would begin in December so that the final game was held no later than it's currently held.

 

A luxury for you and me yes. Whether or not you go to a bowl/playoff game is your decision.

These Bowls (and the city that hosts them) rely HEAVILY on the fan bases from the 2 teams in the game. Which is why so much weight is put into how well a team travels when deciding who to invite to that bowl (which is why the BCS bowls are praying they don't get stuck with Hawaii). The bowls and cities NEED the fan bases to follow their schools. If you force a fan base to travel to 3 different sites in a 3 weeks time, you lose some that support. Which is why the NFL doesn't play it's playoff games at neutral sites. They NEED that the fans spend, so it has to be accessible to the largest amount of fan possible. The best way to get the largest crowds, is to limit the amount of travel as much as possible.

 

This is only an intentional side effect, not a reason, to keep the status quo method in which the championship title is won now. The cities most definitely benefit from bowls. I did not state otherwise.

In a quasi-playoff, some will travel to site A while others will travel to site B and so on. I could argue this gives the average fan a better oppurtunity to attend at least one bowl game his team gets to. Note how quickly prominent bowl tickets are allocated. Case in point, last years hypothetical Rose bowl appearance.

Demand vastly outweighs current supply. Feel free to provide proof to the contrary.