OK, how does this look to everyone? If there is a problem with the wording or I have missed a key element, help me out, word it the way you think it should be or give me the wording for the issue you think I missed.

Make Every College Football Game Count

1. 12 Teams seeded using an objective seeding method chosen by Strength of Schedule and BCS system with computerized alorigthm.

2. All of the Top 8 Conference Champions would be automatically in the playoffs. All conference champions must play 9 conference games to be eligible for automatic bid into top 8.

3. The 4 additional At-Large teams would be included in the playoff system based on the seeding procedure. No team who's conference is already represented in the 8 conference champions can be eligible for At-Large selection.

4. Top 4 Conference Seeds would get a bye in the first round.

5. Seeds 5 through 12: Semi-final games will be played at the higher seeded teams home field. 5th seed would play 12th, 6th would play 11th, 7th would play 10th, 8th would play 9th.

6. First two weeks of playoffs would be played at higher seed home field.

7. All other teams would be go into a pool of bowl teams.

This process keeps the regular season meaningful because everyone will want to finish in the top 4 to earn the Bye. It also insures the smaller conferences a fair shot at the Championship.

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Posted by WildTchoupitoulas

Member since Jan 2010

44071 posts

Posted on 9/3/14 at 3:17 pm to Mulat

I like it except for a couple of points:

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3. The 4 additional At-Large teams would be included in the playoff system

Why? Why not just leave it at the top 8 conference champions?

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4. Top 4 Conference Seeds would get a bye in the first round.

Why? Why should anyone get a 'bye'? that's kind of pussified, just let the top-seeded teams play the bottom-seeded teams. That's all the advantage they need to get for being the top teams.

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5. Seeds 5 through 12 are chosen by Strength of Schedule and BCS system with computerized alorigthm. Semi-final games will be played at the higher seeded teams home field. 5th seed would play 12th, 6th would play 11th, 7th would play 10th, 8th would play 9th.

If you just stick with the top 8 conference champs, you can avoid all this complicated, convoluted bullshite.

8 teams, 7 games:

4 semi-final games to come from pool of Sugar, Rose, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta, Peach.

2 finals go to bowls not used in semis.

1 Championship game goes to highest bidder.

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Posted by FearlessFreep

Baja Alabama

Member since Nov 2009

17339 posts

Posted on 9/3/14 at 3:27 pm to Mulat

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What's the timeline of these games?

Here's how Mulat's system would play out if it were in affect this year:

There are 17 Saturdays between August 30th and December 28th, about the time the bowls usually begin.

With a 13-week regular season including a bye week, followed by Championship games for each of the 8 conferences, you would enter the first round of the playoffs on December 14th. Then 8 teams play on the 21st, and the 4 winners could play around New Year's Day using the current rotating bowl system. Championship would be January 12, 2015, just as is currently planned.

I don't see how this would be any more of an imposition on student-athletes than the current system is. And the schools who host the first two rounds (and the towns in which they reside) will get a huge windfall on top of the distributed revenues.

I like it. Which means it won't happen.