PLAY-offs?!?!?! (/jim_mora)

[HackyMcHack]

(And this isn't a Vick thread, BTW....)

Suppose we had a four-team playoff for the national championship. Ohio State is in. Michigan is in. Florida is in.

But which team gets lucky spot No. 4?

--LSU? Nope, didn't make its conference championship game (but would have a good argument).

--Wisconsin? Nope, not with the BCS' two-school-per-conference limit.

--USC? Nope, not with two losses.

--What does that leave us with? Boise State?

Discuss....

 

[HoopsMcCann]

if lsu is disqualified for not making its conference championship game, why does michigan get in for finishing second in its conference that doesn't have a round-robin or a championship game?

so, i think we're left with ohio state, florida, boise state and WHO?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Twenty-four teams (that way nobody can complain they were unfairly left out). And no bowls. Play games at home sites except for the championship game, which can rotate among the old BCS sites.

 

[GB-Hack]

Wake Forest!!

Seriously though, I'd go with Louisville. Big East Champ, or Oklahoma, Big 12.

 

[dawgpounddiehard]

if lsu is disqualified for not making its conference championship game, why does michigan get in for finishing second in its conference that doesn't have a round-robin or a championship game?

so, i think we're left with ohio state, florida, boise state and WHO?

Louisville.

This is what makes me so flabbergasted about this joke that is minor league football... why is no one giving Louisville credit? One loss & won the conference just like Florida.

 

[Pancamo]

LSU finished THIRD in the SEC West. Tigers deserve the Poulan Weedeater Bowl.

 

[spnited]

Twenty-four teams (that way nobody can complain they were unfairly left out). And no bowls. Play games at home sites except for the championship game, which can rotate among the old BCS sites.

24 teams? Why play a regular season?

8 teams will work: 6 BCS league champs, 2 at-large.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

LSU finished THIRD in the SEC West. Tigers deserve the Poulan Weedeater Bowl.

WHAT! Brother, please...

 

[Pancamo]

LSU finished THIRD in the SEC West. Tigers deserve the Poulan Weedeater Bowl.

WHAT! Brother, please...

Arkansas
Auburn
LSU

Auburn beat LSU head to head.


3rd place in the West.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Twenty-four teams (that way nobody can complain they were unfairly left out). And no bowls. Play games at home sites except for the championship game, which can rotate among the old BCS sites.

24 teams? Why play a regular season?

8 teams will work: 6 BCS league champs, 2 at-large.

Exactly. Just keep it short and sweet.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

Oh, I'm not arguing with the standings, I'm just saying that LSU deserves more than the Weedeater Bowl. The consensus is they're the second-best team in the SEC, despite what the standings say.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Twenty-four teams (that way nobody can complain they were unfairly left out). And no bowls. Play games at home sites except for the championship game, which can rotate among the old BCS sites.

24 teams? Why play a regular season?

8 teams will work: 6 BCS league champs, 2 at-large.

Not fair to the Boise States, Wisconsins and Arkansases of the world, given that one of the at-larges will almost always go to a none-too-deserving Notre Dame side just because it's Notre Dame. And the MAC can produce a team or two which could make a legitimate run to the quarterfinals every so often. The BCS leagues ain't all they're cracked up to be --- see also this year's ACC.

It needs to be bigger than the playoffs for the lower divisions. Besides, I can easily picture a scenario in which a "ninth-best" or lower team gets a nice December run going --- a team like Rutgers could fill that bill very nicely.

 

[GFav44]

I think that Louisville deserves that 4th spot.

 

[Ledbetter]

Oh, I'm not arguing with the standings, I'm just saying that LSU deserves more than the Weedeater Bowl. The consensus is they're the second-best team in the SEC, despite what the standings say.

The way LSU is playing now, it might be the best team in the SEC. Same could have been said about Auburn at the end of last season.

 

[wickedwritah]

I see 24 teams and the complaints that "no one will be able to complain." Tell that to the NCAA Selection Committee.

Always will be a whiner out there.

Rarely does the crapshoot go beyond four teams. This year is one of those rare deals since USC pooped the bed yesterday. A plus-one, which would involve pushing back the championship game just a couple days so teams had time to recover after Jan. 1, would do the trick.

 

[MertWindu]

I see 24 teams and the complaints that "no one will be able to complain." Tell that to the NCAA Selection Committee.

Always will be a whiner out there.

That's fine, but the whining in the NCAA Tournament is about which mediocre Big Ten team doesn't get the 14th seed, not who gets to play in the title game. Big difference.

 

[Bullrog]

16 teams - Four rounds, scale the regular season back to 10 (or maybe 11) games.

Automatic bids:
Ohio State (Big Ten champ)
Florida (SEC champ)
Louisville (Big East champ)
Oklahoma (Big 12 champ)
Wake Forest (ACC champ)
USC (Pac-10 champ)

At-large bids:
Michigan, LSU, Auburn, Wisconsin, Boise State, Notre Dame, Arkansas, West Virginia, Rutgers, one more

BYU, California, Virginia Tech, Texas, Tennessee all could make a case for the last bid.

If every other level of college football can have a playoff, D-I can do it.

 

[MileHigh]

College presidents love the bowl system too much. Just make the BCS title game that was added the plus-one and take the two best teams after the bowls. Yes, there will be complaining, there always is, but not as much as now.

Rose: USC vs. Ohio State
Fiesta: Boise State vs. Oklahoma
Sugar: Michigan vs. Florida
Orange: Louisville vs. Wake Forest

 

[leo1]

they will never get rid of the bowls. these are massive corporate entities that won't just go away and won't stand by idly if the ncaa declared them to be worthless like the NIT did 30-40 years ago or whenever the NCAA tournament started.

all the bowls can be part of the playoff system and the bowls will love it. the lesser bowls will serve as first and second round game hosts. so for example, top-seeded ohio state would play its first game at something like the micron computers bowl, a second round game at whatever bowl and then the national championship at one of the current bowls.

the playoff system would also eliminate the travesty of 6-6 teams like miami being rewarded for anything.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

No, to hell with that nonsense. Ohio State should be home right through the semis as long as the Buckeyes keep winning. It's not fair to the fans to continually have them travelling hither and yon (not that anybody in the BCS cares about anybody as trivial as the fans).