This is something I thought about. Making a three round playoff with each round spaced two weeks apart would help tame this issue.
I think we're just about on the same level. I'm not really into a "top 8" 8-team playoff, but we agree on most stuff. I am for a flexible playoff with conference champions who rate high enough (top 10, maybe top 16) included and then only include highly rated independents and other highly rated teams whose conferences aren't represented. Most years we would have less than 8 teams in the playoff, which wouldn't be as big a deal as it seems. This would give some weight to winning a conference championship, some weight to being rated high enough, and keep things exclusive enough where the regular season is still very important while at the same time giving teams like Boise St a chance to dream. I'd really push for SoS to be added to the BCS formula, however.
Ok I know the point is the playoff system which I love the idea of. However the problem I have here is do you honestly believe that we would lose to bs????? A team who has not seen a defense all year? I dont think so I dont think it would be pretty but you gotta give the W to the tigers (maybe a little bias here but for God sake they lost to nevada!!!!!) Also I think I would take stanford over tcu as well but that one might be a little more of a toss up.
1) the sos would have to be calculated at the end of the season, instead of the moving target it is today... and 2) Good luck with getting any major conference to agree that their champion may or may not be in a playoff.
Personally I would love to see the top 8 teams go into a playoff. Use the current bowl system in place rotating which bowl would get the 1st round, 2nd round and final ect. Also you keep the other misc bowls so everone still gets the bowl season that we have all come to love. Finally the biggest change is DO NOT DO PRESEASON RANKINGS!! Rankings should only start after week 5 or 6. I think the preseason rankings lend to so much bias and can really skew the final season rankings. Using the theory of a playoff system, let the teams prove their case of where they should be ranked by their wins/losses.
As I said I dont see bs beating a team with any reasonable defense. If our offense shows up and our D is solid I dont see us loosing against them. Just me though.
Officially, SoS is not a part of the BCS formula at all. This would probably be a big hurdle, true, but a flexible playoff would lend itself to an environment much like we have now, where playing for the NC is exclusive. If no conference is guaranteed, then they are at least all in the same boat, with a lot of great bowls left to salvage the season. I fundamentally disagree that conference champs automatically deserve to play for the NC. We're talking about playing for the NC, something still highly revered in college football. I think a strong argument can be made for keeping it exclusive (especially when the non-playoff environment would be strengthened by having a stronger pool of teams outside the BCS umbrella). Plus, including all conference champions would be bad for the bowls. Not making the playoff would be more of a problem for teams and rip at the fabric of college football. A secondary bowl would be a disappointment, more so that it would be now (and under a flexible system that recognizes the importance of exclusivity). There would be a bunch of filler in some years with an 8 team playoff.
Please read my post more carefully, instead of just looking at the playoff bracket I posted. Here is the pertinent part that you apparently missed: "(for the sake of argument, the higher-ranked team is shown to advance to the next round)"
Yea I read that after the fact, it just hurts to see us losing to bs. Which brings me to my point there should be no preseason rankings. Prove where you should be ranked by your play.
