College Football Playoff System

[golfingomez]

Make the bowl games part of the playoffs:

Saturday, Week 0 - Conference Championship Games

Selection Sunday - All 10 (WAC is dead) conference champions receive an automatic bid. A committee selects the other 6.

Week 1 Bowl Playoffs

East Regional

1. #16 vs. #1 - Chick-Fil-A Bowl

2. #9 vs. #8 - Champs Sports Bowl

3. #13 vs. #4 - Capital One Bowl

4. #12 vs. #5 - Liberty Bowl

West Regional

5. #15 vs. #2 - Alamo Bowl

6. #10 vs. #7 - Sun Bowl

7. #11 vs. #6 - Poinsettia Bowl

8. #14 vs. #3 - Insight Bowl

Week 2 Playoffs

East Region SemiFinals

9. Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner - Gator Bowl

10. Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner - Sugar Bowl

West Region SemiFinals

11. Game 11 Winner vs. Game 12 Winner - Cotton Bowl

12. Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner - Fiesta Bowl

Week 3 Playoffs

East Region Finals

13. Game 9 Winner vs. Game 10 Winner - Orange Bowl

West Region Finals

14. Game 11 Winner vs. Game 12 Winner - Rose Bowl

Week 4 Playoffs

National Championship Game

15. East Region Champion vs. West Region Champion - Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX

these aren't bowls... they are just locations... and they don't even make sense... why are Michigan, Notre Dame, Oregon, Ohio St. etc. going to want to take their teams that far south just for a playoff game...

if they ever go to a playoff system that big, there is no way, that first round games aren't done at home sites... which means good bye to any team below the big 5 conferences ever getting more than one team playing past the regular season

[NT91]

Can Conf. Like the MAC, CUSA, SB get into the playoffs? 1-4

[Greenrex]

Can Conf. Like the MAC, CUSA, SB get into the playoffs? 1-4

no

[Mean Green 93-98]

Can Conf. Like the MAC, CUSA, SB get into the playoffs? 1-4

Technically, they are eligible to get in. There's supposed to be some committee who will decide which 4 go in, and it is possible that a non-power 5 team could be selected, though unlikely.

[untjim1995]

Can Conf. Like the MAC, CUSA, SB get into the playoffs? 1-4

That will never happen. Only non-AQs that could go unbeaten and get in are either BYU or Boise State, just because of name recognition to the public. Even they would have to have unbeaten years while everyone else lost at least one game in the top 4.

I'm seriously at the point where I am fine with the AQs taking their toys and going home. The non-AQs should band together to force much higher payouts on series with these NFL-lite programs, so either 1-1 series or you can play us for a million dollars or more for one game at your behemoth stadium. 2 for 1 gets the non-AQ at least $750K.

I also think that a playoff system for non-AQs would be much easier to implement--those lower-level bowls are all owned by ESPN anyway. Give ESPN our playoff system for the month of December, when most of the non-AQs play bowls anyway, and we can have a whole month to enjoy the publicity that would come from having no other college competition for football. The AQs are going to have to always include the bowl games in their situation, whether they have a playoff or not, just because of money. Those bowl committees aren't gonna let go of their games just for the sake of a playoff system. They payout too much money because they make so much money. You can cede the last week of December and first week of January to the NFL-lites and let them continue to play each other, as they do now, but their bowl games have been in ratings decline for a while now. Sure, the Big Bowls will always be great, and if they are used as a part of their playoff system, they'll continue to do well. But, its my belief that the non-AQs are going to get left behind anyway, and when we do, we are going to have to figure out what we are going to do to get revenue and attention. The FCS-style playoff system, playing when the AQs aren't, would give college football fans something to watch and create interest from. The problem with the current FCS playoff system is solely due to the fact that nobody knows any of those teams, for the most part. If most of your non-AQs are left behind, they aren't suddenly going to lose their name recognition. UNT playing SMU in a playoff game (heck, even a conference game!!) would get some interest around here, especially if it was played when the Aggies, Longhorns, Sooners, etc..weren't playing.

I wish that a schism wouldn't happen, that UNT will get to stay as FBS, that we will all get an equal chance, that cats and dogs will finally get along, and that there will never be a hungry person in the world again. But none of those are likely to happen in the future. As Kirk Herbstreit said on ESPN this past weekend, the Big AQs have sent out the first shots at separating eventually from the NCAA. When that happens, the AQs will be able to function in a completely different fashion than they currently do, from paying players legally to letting kids play for them without having to go to class. I, for one, know UNT will never be able to handle the former and would never settle, thankfully, for the latter.