New BCS Playoff?

[Gehrig]

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8094689/bcs-leaders-confident-ahead-playoff-presentation-university-presidents

It's looking like the idea is to do a 4 team playoff...

 

[Armchair_QB]

First I'm hearing of this...

 

[Stitch]

With a long-term deal to ensure a real NCAA champion won't be crowned anytime soon.

 

[proudpittsburgher]

Current BCS bowls -- Rose, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta -- would get the first chance to host the semifinals but there will be a bidding process.

Of course there is.

 

[Stitch]

Current BCS bowls -- Rose, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta -- would get the first chance to host the semifinals but there will be a bidding process.

Of course there is.

Code for adding the Cotton Bowl, whatever bowl is in Houston, and the one in Tampa.

 

[JackReacher]

Hasn't it been a lock for at least a month or so now that we're getting a four-team playoff?

 

[Mark2010]

I had been a proponent of a playoff system for many years, going back to the 1980s. But the mechanics of this is difficult. How is this any different than the current BCS format, other than adding two more teams and one more game?

If you take 4 teams, team No. 5 will always feel slighted. If you take 8 teams, team No. 9 will complain. If you take 16 teams, it will be team No. 17. And so. The basketball tournament is up to, what, 68 teams and every year you hear whining from some team with 12 losses claiming it got jobbed. (Truth be told, there are probably too MANY teams getting in, not too few.) So I can't see how a 4-team playoff is going to help much.

How would you justify excluding a major conference champion while taking more than one team from another conference?

 

[JackReacher]

Lots more transparency with the playoff, too. Anyone who argues against this playoff is doing so because they lack a brain.

 

[nmmetsfan]

I'm in favor as long as this is the first step in a process toward a true playoff.

 

[Armchair_QB]

I don't know the exact numbers but prior to the creation of the BCS you could count on one hand the number of teams that jumped from No. 5 to No. 1 at the end of the bowl season.

 

[JackReacher]

It's not going to be perfect. No playoff system will be. But it'll be 984578346736378459857% better than the BCS.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I agree with Ryan S.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

PS: AQB, on New Year's Day 1966, Michigan State, Arkansas and Nebraska, ranked 1-2-3, lost the Rose, Cotton and Orange Bowls respectively. Number four Alabama, which beat Nebraska was given the AP number one. That's as close as I can come.

 

[Cosmo]

Rare is the time you can make an argument for the No. 5 team in the country as a true national championship contender. It's usually a flawed team with a defeat as it is. I'm fine with the four. Obviously, the trouble comes when you have a year where the champs of the SEC, Big 12, Big 10, Pac 12 and ACC all have one loss and you have to parse through the resumes. But those years will be pretty rare.

If anything, a four-team playoff out to encourage tougher scheduling because the penalty for a loss isn't as severe. Play a great schedule and finish 11-1/12-1 and you still have a great shot of cracking the top four.

 

[JackReacher]

Yeah. A sticky situation will be if the selection committee is "encouraged" to take conference championships "into consideration" when selecting the four teams. Still, though, it's better than what we have now.

 

[JackReacher]

Prediction: College football will still suck.

You take that back! And take it back NOW, Mister!!!

 

[Mizzougrad96]

My biggest question is how will this change the structure of who plays who in the bowl games or will it change at all?

If you're ranked No. 3 entering the bowl games, and you had to choose between playing the No. 2 team in one bowl or the No. 5 team in another bowl, would a team be better off taking what is presumably the "easier" game just so it holds its place to make the four-team playoff?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Prediction: College football will still suck.

College football is awesome. The bowl system sucks. This is not perfect, but it is a huge improvement.

 

[JackReacher]

My biggest question is how will this change the structure of who plays who in the bowl games or will it change at all?

If you're ranked No. 3 entering the bowl games, and you had to choose between playing the No. 2 team in one bowl or the No. 5 team in another bowl, would a team be better off taking what is presumably the "easier" game just so it holds its place to make the four-team playoff?

I mean, won't the four teams in the playoffs be selected before any bowl games are played? After that, they'll fall in place like normal, far as I can tell.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Just think, with the additional revenue, schools will finally be able to pay their athletes ....














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