ESPN's Bowl Replacement Series Playoff Bracket

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Joyride

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Check out what ESPN thinks would be a good bracket if there were playoffs in college football

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I am not 100% sold on this since I am an Iowa Hawkeye fan. We have already played (and beat) Michigan once this year and could potentially play another team from our own conference.

I love the idea and hope it happens but the execution of this bracket was poorly done IMHO.
 
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Soccer55

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Originally posted by: konichiwa
Three games in three days? How many schools do you think will go for that?
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I think they mean for the voting. So the first round voting is done today, second round tomorrow, third round on the third day, and final round on the fourth day.

-Tom

EDIT: Damn....missed a round
 
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konichiwa

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Ah I see.

I know it's not supposed to be real but they are sort of halfheartedly proposing a bracketed tourney system.
 
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Shlong

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That would be terrific. If 16 is too much, they can do 8. Kid's missing too much class? Well college basketball kids in one series (couple of games) will miss more class then college football kids all season. Plus most colleges are on winter vacation right now when the playoffs could be going on.
 
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nitsuj3580

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just looking at that 16 team bracket makes me wish for a playoff. It would be soo much fun to watch.
 
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mpitts

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I like it. I have always said that the BCS would make a compelling system to build a playoff around.

I really think you would have to limit it to the top 8, instead of 16 though.

And if you did that, you could use the 4 BCS bowl games as quarterfinals.
 
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I'm all in favor of a playoff and I'm not opposed to the idea of using the current BCS to set up the brackets. Personally, I think the playoff should be limited to four or eight teams, though. A team that's not top 5 shouldn't be playing for the national championship, in my opinion. Granted, that's basically how it's done in NCAA basketball. I guess the 64th team could end up winning it all and being the champion.

However, I can see your point in the potential of having two teams playing in the regular season and again in the playoffs. There definitely needs to be some changes made somewhere to the system we've got, though.
 
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mpitts

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Originally posted by: Joyride
Check out what ESPN thinks would be a good bracket if there were playoffs in college football

Bracket

I am not 100% sold on this since I am an Iowa Hawkeye fan. We have already played (and beat) Michigan once this year and could potentially play another team from our own conference.

I love the idea and hope it happens but the execution of this bracket was poorly done IMHO.
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I don't think it was poorly done. I think that it took it's ranking straight from the BCS system.

I don't like the idea of teams having to play teams from their own conference, but what else do you propose?
 
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CtK

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they should have the top 4 teams in the BCS poll in the playoffs

team 1 & 4 plays in Orange Bowl
team 2 & 3 plays in Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl

the winner of those two games play in Sugar Bowl for National Championship

that will net the colleges loooots of $$$$ and that is what they really care about!!
 
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Soccer55

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Originally posted by: TC2181
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Ah I see.

I know it's not supposed to be real but they are sort of halfheartedly proposing a bracketed tourney system.
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This proposal may make a little more sense, but still pretty dumb. Listed under "Lead Item"
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The only thing I don't get is this.....weeks 4 and 5 are supposed to be cupcakes. So you match up say Oklahoma against Wyoming or something like that. But OU is not a cupcake for Wyoming, so they get shafted by having only 1 game to schedule a cupcake. And you know that it probably wouldn't happen as another top 25 team would want to play them in the 5th week. Or is the cupcake thing only apply to the good teams?

The solution I would support would be this: Cut back the season by 1 game and use some form of the BCS (the current or a modified version) to determine the top 8 teams in the nation. Then all of the games except for the title game can be played in the couple of weeks before the bowls. Then place the teams in the final round into the national championship game, and the other 6 teams into the other major bowls.

However, one issue I see is that every other division (I-AA, II, and III) already have a tournament and thus have some sort of criteria for selecting the teams that get the chance to play in the tournament. Why not just use that same criteria? I haven't really ever heard complaints from I-AA, II, or III schools about the tournament selection process, so why not make it a standard for all NCAA football postseasons?

This also got me thinking about another pretty cool thing that the NCAA could do. After the national champions for each division have been determined, hold 2 extra games matching these 4 teams up in a small tournament to come up with some sort of overall champion. I think it would be interesting to see how the best team in each division match up with each other.

-Tom
 
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Originally posted by: CtK
they should have the top 4 teams in the BCS poll in the playoffs

team 1 & 4 plays in Orange Bowl
team 2 & 3 plays in Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl

the winner of those two games play in Sugar Bowl for National Championship

that will net the collegs loooots of $$$$ and that is what they really care about!!
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That's only a three-game playoff, though. There are four top-tier bowls. I don't see one of them "stepping down" to make room for a playoff. All I can see as far as keeping those four bowls as happy as possible is to rotate each year which bowl doesn't have a game involved in the four-team playoff, similar to how they rotate the championship game now.

 
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CtK

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Originally posted by: SuperCommando
Originally posted by: CtK
they should have the top 4 teams in the BCS poll in the playoffs

team 1 & 4 plays in Orange Bowl
team 2 & 3 plays in Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl

the winner of those two games play in Sugar Bowl for National Championship

that will net the collegs loooots of $$$$ and that is what they really care about!!
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That's only a three-game playoff, though. There are four top-tier bowls. I don't see one of them "stepping down" to make room for a playoff. All I can see as far as keeping those four bowls as happy as possible is to rotate each year which bowl doesn't have a game involved in the four-team playoff, similar to how they rotate the championship game now.
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nitsuj3580

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Originally posted by: CtK
they should have the top 4 teams in the BCS poll in the playoffs

team 1 & 4 plays in Orange Bowl
team 2 & 3 plays in Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl

the winner of those two games play in Sugar Bowl for National Championship

that will net the collegs loooots of $$$$ and that is what they really care about!!
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plus only a combination of 6 teams instead of 8 would be playing in the 4 major bowls with 4 teams taking up 3 bowls and then 2 left over for the 4th bowl. So yes, a couple schools will be making a lot more money but a few other schools will not make as much as in the current system
 
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