A Playoff Scenario

[greenminer]

The annual Southeastern Conference business meetings started here Tuesday, and by the end of the week, Florida president Bernie Machen will know if he has the support of the league in pushing forward a national championship football playoff plan.

Machen has been making noise about a playoff since December, when he feared the Gators might be shut out of the national championship game using the current Bowl Championship Series system. That didn't happen. The Gators got their shot at No. 1 and trounced Ohio State for the national championship.

Now, Machen says he has a plan that involves setting up a corporation to run a playoff separate from the NCAA and BCS commissioners.

via espn

[UNTflyer]

has a plan that involves setting up a corporation to run a playoff separate from the NCAA and BCS commissioners.

That's crap. WHY can't the NCAA sanction a playoff system for football?? It does for every single other sport!

[NT80]

That's crap. WHY can't the NCAA sanction a playoff system for football?? It does for every single other sport!

There is an NCAA football playoff for every division except 1-A.

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Edited May 30, 2007 by NT80

[stebo]

A playoff series would leave the Belt and North Texas out of the party. It would also leave another 32 schools out of the party. The two cannot go hand in hand because one would be paid attention to/get the TV bucks for and the other would be basically just like the IAA "Championship" series. As it is, the Belt is a member of the BCS and we have a chance to build a team up (like Boise St and Utah) to crash the BCS and be everyone's underdog. The system is not perfect, but we make a LOT more money from the BCS now that we are a member and any time the non-BCS schools get a team in it is just like we got one in - we get double the payout. Call it welfare money, but it is the first slice of the pie. As we all continue to grow and take advantage of the new rules... scheduling will get smarter, money games will decrease, and that will cause the money games to be replaced with 2 for 1's (something that we are already seeing all over the country). I think that the current system is the best possible way for NT and the Belt to grow and not be stifled. If a playoff system were to go through, the big boys would get the Belt, the WAC, CUSA, anc MAC kicked out of the BCS so that all 16 spots would be awarded to those conferences. They would not even share those 4 spots because those 4 spots would be so valuable. As it is, we can work our way up in the bowl picture. We just have to prove ourselves through time.

[gksmith]

There are 11 D1A football conferences. How hard is it to take those 11 champions plus some at large bids and put together a tournament? Seed the teams and play the tournament. Make it 16 teams, 20 teams, even 24 or 32 teams if necessary. How much different is it for fans to travel to road games for a team as it would be to go to tournament games?

Greed from the BCS college presidents are ruining D1A football.

[TIgreen01]

A playoff series would leave the Belt and North Texas out of the party. It would also leave another 32 schools out of the party. The two cannot go hand in hand because one would be paid attention to/get the TV bucks for and the other would be basically just like the IAA "Championship" series. As it is, the Belt is a member of the BCS and we have a chance to build a team up (like Boise St and Utah) to crash the BCS and be everyone's underdog. The system is not perfect, but we make a LOT more money from the BCS now that we are a member and any time the non-BCS schools get a team in it is just like we got one in - we get double the payout. Call it welfare money, but it is the first slice of the pie. As we all continue to grow and take advantage of the new rules... scheduling will get smarter, money games will decrease, and that will cause the money games to be replaced with 2 for 1's (something that we are already seeing all over the country). I think that the current system is the best possible way for NT and the Belt to grow and not be stifled. If a playoff system were to go through, the big boys would get the Belt, the WAC, CUSA, anc MAC kicked out of the BCS so that all 16 spots would be awarded to those conferences. They would not even share those 4 spots because those 4 spots would be so valuable. As it is, we can work our way up in the bowl picture. We just have to prove ourselves through time.

I agree with you. Ideally, you'd want some kind of playoff to be determined from the BCS equation for seeding teams. We'd still be included in that case. With the proposal of a separate corporation, outside the BCS and NCAA, handling the seeding...I think we'd definitely be left out. What would be the anti-trust implications surrounding this type of plan?