Oh good, we didn't have nearly enough bowl games

The schools would be going over the limit of games in a season and would be sanctioned, heavily I would assume, for doing it. And it'll hold up in court because the NCAA is a voluntary organization. You agree to abide by its rules, and accept its sanctions, when you join.

Now the teams could still do it but my guess is they wouldn't sniff a postseason opportunity for several years if they do.

 

You made a key point: The NCAA is a voluntary organization. Two football teams could very make their own TV deal and go play one additional game after the bowls and BCS games. In essence, it would be saying to the NCAA, Thanks, but we no longer want to be a member of your organization. If the right powers decided to do that, the changes you'd see from the NCAA would come so fast it would make your head spin.

The problem with this is that, with everyone making their own rules, there would be chaos. With everyone following one set of regulations, there is (theoretically) calm and order.

 

it almost happened in 2004 when Clemson and South Carolina called themselves out of the bowls because of the brawl. The NCAA said to itself, "Thank God for Troy."

But with 12 games now instead of 11, more teams will get to six wins. Hence more bowls.

 

I think this was actually tried back when USC and LSU shared the title. I think Compaq or some rich crazy guy offered up $100 million in scholarship money to have them play in late January to decide the true champion. It wasn't a very realistic plan, but it was interesting nonetheless.

 

FSU president admits that a playoff is inevitable - like it or not.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieDZZ-6w9y1DH_91PQ1_gDr8gkAAD90MVUSO2

 

My God, the bowl chances for Baylor, Kent Stake and Duke are getting better by the day.

 

Here is what I've often wondered -- what if all of the six BCS conference teams decided to take their football leagues to another sanctioning body independent of the NCAA -- what could the NCAA do about it?

They could all declare their football programs club teams and then do whatever the hell they'd want and I'm sure the little shit conferences would shortly thereafter follow suit.

 

NCAA could boot the schools out of the NCAA. In football, that might not affect things much, since there's no playoff anyways, but in other sports, like men's hoops, that could be a huge thing. It would probably become like a CART/IRL thing or a boxing thing where you would have an NCAA champ and a non-NCAA champ, with fans and the media throwing a fit over who the real champion is.

 

It'll never happen for the reasons Zag outlined above. For one thing, no university president - even the president at FSU - is going to jeopardize an entire athletic department over a football playoff.

 

Put the two participating schools on probation for nine million years.