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BCS Playoff

It's a start, but I won't be happy until we get to at least a 16 team playoff.

If the FBS can do it, then the FCS should be able to.
 
I would prefer an 8-team playoff, but 4 teams is perfectly acceptable. I don't see anybody being taken seriously when they complain that team #5 doesn't get a shot.
 
Should be 8, but it's a start. This might actually get me to watch some College Football.

KT
 
The most unfair part of the BCS bowls is that they're never north. They're always in the SPF 50 towns. It's unfair to teams like Ohio State and Notre Dame, teams that are built for the snow and the wind and the 4-yard nose-bending gain, to always have to go south to win titles. So we fix that right now.

Therefore, 1 and 2 will play at their home stadiums in the semis.
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This seems like a huge advantage, unless the crowd is split 50/50.
 
blurredvision said:
I would prefer an 8-team playoff, but 4 teams is perfectly acceptable. I don't see anybody being taken seriously when they complain that team #5 doesn't get a shot.
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We're going to hear a lot of bitching from the perennial complainers at Boise State. But you're right, no one takes them seriously. It's going to get stale seeing Bama, LSU, Oklahoma and THE Ohio State University playing each other every year though.
 
I would have been happy with a +1 game, in fact I might prefer it to a 4-team playoff depending on how it's implemented, but still, FINALLY!
 
Adrenaline said:
Better than what they have now. How many times has a team outside of the Top 4 actually deserved a chance at the NC?
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Many. In fact most years there is never a consensus top 2 or top 4. Far more often than not there's no difference between 2-3-4-5 or 4-5-6-7. All they're doing is creating a slightly different problem while in reality solving nothing. They need an 8 team playoff, the champs of the 6 major BCS conferences and the next best 2 at large teams. Win your conference or shut up, that's fair. Without taking all conference champs the final result is still tainted as potentially worthy teams won't get a chance to play for the title, just like before.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Many. In fact most years there is never a consensus top 2 or top 4. Far more often than not there's no difference between 2-3-4-5 or 4-5-6-7. All they're doing is creating a slightly different problem while in reality solving nothing. They need an 8 team playoff, the champs of the 6 major BCS conferences and the next best 2 at large teams. Win your conference or shut up, that's fair. Without taking all conference champs the final result is still tainted as potentially worthy teams won't get a chance to play for the title, just like before.
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This will pave the way for 2 things above all.. a loss-less mid-major conference team will have a chance to win a championship, and a 1-loss major conference team would have more of a chance to recover and win one too. That's all I ever wanted really, aside from every conference either abolishing or adopting a conference championship playoff game.
 
Hell has frozen over.

This will open the door for a larger system, the hardest part was getting them to admit it was needed at all.
 
The most unfair part of the BCS bowls is that they're never north. They're always in the SPF 50 towns. It's unfair to teams like Ohio State and Notre Dame, teams that are built for the snow and the wind and the 4-yard nose-bending gain, to always have to go south to win titles. So we fix that right now.
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I can't wait to watch SEC teams head up north and win. These writers act like winter doesn't exist in the south. What will be their excuse when SEC teams win in the cold? "well, they only won because the SEC team's fans bought all of the tickets..."
 
The most unfair part of the BCS bowls is that they're never north. They're always in the SPF 50 towns. It's unfair to teams like Ohio State and Notre Dame, teams that are built for the snow and the wind and the 4-yard nose-bending gain, to always have to go south to win titles. So we fix that right now.
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we need to fix that for the NFL as well, Super Bowl in Feb in Mass or Green Bay would be great
 
ockky said:
I can't wait to watch SEC teams head up north and win. These writers act like winter doesn't exist in the south. What will be their excuse when SEC teams win in the cold? "well, they only won because the SEC team's fans bought all of the tickets..."
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It's not just about the south playing in the cold, but many of the northern teams aren't used to playing in 70+ degree temps that late in the year and run into conditioning issues when heading south. Home field goes both ways.
 
It's a start and I'll take it, certainly better than what we have now. Until they set it up to where the only ones in the playoff are conference winners there will always be an argument over the last spot. It is what it is, not everyone gets in no matter how many spots someone is going to be close but left out. Personally, if you can't win your own conference you don't deserve in.
 
top 8 means finalists have to play 2 more games than in BCS system, and top 4 means they got to play just one more. from fairness perspective, top 8 makes more sense.
 
Didn't the SEC propose a playoff-style system a few years back and get rejected by the other major conferences? After years of SEC domination, it is obvious that the other conferences regret not agreeing to it when they had the chance.

A 4-team playoff is too small and would lead to the same amount of bitching we have now. 12 teams or more would do even though it would take forever to see play out.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
They need an 8 team playoff, the champs of the 6 major BCS conferences and the next best 2 at large teams. Win your conference or shut up, that's fair. Without taking all conference champs the final result is still tainted as potentially worthy teams won't get a chance to play for the title, just like before.
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I would go so far as to say the at large teams have to be a conference champs as well if they are not independent. So that should include Notre Dame/BYU, and make it so that Mountain West and WAC can get in. Those conferences are better than the ACC, and in recent years, the Big East.
 
Childs said:
I would go so far as to say the at large teams have to be a conference champs as well if they are not independent. So that should include Notre Dame/BYU, and make it so that Mountain West and WAC can get in. Those conferences are better than the ACC, and in recent years, the Big East.
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I agree, I just didn't phrase it well enough. Win your conference or shut up and go away. No second bananas, if you can't win your conference you have no right to call yourself the national champion.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Many. In fact most years there is never a consensus top 2 or top 4. Far more often than not there's no difference between 2-3-4-5 or 4-5-6-7. All they're doing is creating a slightly different problem while in reality solving nothing. They need an 8 team playoff, the champs of the 6 major BCS conferences and the next best 2 at large teams. Win your conference or shut up, that's fair. Without taking all conference champs the final result is still tainted as potentially worthy teams won't get a chance to play for the title, just like before.
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I disagree. Four is plenty for college football. If you are going 8 you need to go 16 then and give everyone a shot. I read an article how a guy proposed 11 automatic berths from the conference winners and 5 at large. That would cover everything. Eight will still leave someone outside whining like four will.
 
Adrenaline said:
I disagree. Four is plenty for college football. If you are going 8 you need to go 16 then and give everyone a shot. I read an article how a guy proposed 11 automatic berths from the conference winners and 5 at large. That would cover everything. Eight will still leave someone outside whining like four will.
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I disagree. There will be teams on the outside bitching no matter how many teams you invite. Look at the basketball. 64 now 68 and there were still teams bitching about being left out. 8, imo, is perfect. Most of the undefeated non-bcs teams have finished in the top 8.
 
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