Time to move to my playoff model?

[patdog]

Auto bids:
#1 Clemson
#2 Oklahoma
#3 Georgia
#5 Ohio St.
#8 Southern Cal

Best mid-major champion:
#10 Central Florida

At large:
#4 Alabama
#6 Wisconsin

1st round on campuses of top 4 seeds, 1 game Fri Dec 15 and 3 on Sat Dec 16. Top teams left out are #7 Auburn at 10-3 and #9 Penn St. at 10-2.

 

[msstate7]

Yes.

 

[SaintsDoc]

Makes sense.

 

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

I'd be fine with this as long as the best mid-major champion is ranked around #12 or better. If there isn't one, take the 3rd best At large team.

 

[paindonthurt_]

No no no

 

[kired]

Absolutely - I've been saying this for years. This way every power-5 team has a clear way to make it, and no one to blame but themselves.

 

[57stratdawg]

The college basketball regular season makes me not want to go beyond 4 teams.

 

[paindonthurt_]

This. If you add more than 4 teams, the regular season starts to mean much less.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Just force out the mercers and San Jacinto state colleges off the schedule.

 

[civildawg88]

You would have to do away with the conference championship games also, which is fine because they don’t mean anything now

 

[Go Budaw]

I don’t get why everyone is saying this will lead to expansion of the CFP. There were 3 deserving teams this year....not 5 and certainly not 8. Neither Bama nor Ohio State has any damn business playing for the natty, but they had to pick one. You could make a stronger argument that we should go back to only picking 2 teams than you could for picking 4 more undeserving teams.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

It will give us a chance to see Bama get rolled though.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

I wouldn’t mind the BCS again actually.

 

[FQDawg]

Not sure if linking this will work, but one of the guys from the SEC office just tweeted that in all four years of the playoff, the 4 playoff teams would also have been the top 4 in the BCS rankings.

That's four out of four years the teams the BCS would have selected for Playoff are the same four the CFP has selected (with slight variances in order of 2/3) https://t.co/9JGaWxsw3t

 

[EurekaDog]

Teams that play only Top 5 (conference) teams should be eligible for the CFP

Let the NCAA take a standard cut from every regular season game to ship to the FCS, D2, & D3 teams to replace the $$$ from the "cupcake games", i.e (Mercer vs Bama).

 

[PineGroveBully]

I wouldn't be against going to 6 teams. Take the 5 conference champs then the best remaining team. Rank them one thru 6. Top 2 seeds get a bye, thus making the regular season matter. Then have 3 host 6 and 4 host 5 on campus on Christmas Eve/Day. Then on NYD have the NY6 Bowls rotate as is with the Natty played the following week. I think that's best of all worlds. Byes make regular season matter. Each conference champ getting in makes it so no team has an excuse. Then on years they are a worthy non P5 they have a chance and if not take the best non conference champ

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Gets my vote brotatoe chip.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Yes. Would make the regular season even more exciting.

The only change I might suggest is to abolish the concept of "Power 5" altogether, and just take the 6 highest conference champions and 2 more at larges. It would be the same almost every year, but on the rare occasions in which a P5 champion is very bad, there's a way to exclude them.

I also propose abolishing games against FCS, and stricter standards of what it takes for a team to be FBS. Many MAC/CUSA/Sun Belt teams don't belong in the top division.