16 Team Playoff

I’m down
8/9 game schedule
Top 16 playoff money would be staggering

The more I think about this, the more I like it.

- 9 game regular season (8 conference, 1 OOC)
- no conference championship games
- polls/computer/committee choose seeds
- 1st round games on home fields of top seeds
- Quarters/semis played in bowls
- Championship at Hard Rock as scheduled

Why the hell not?

"1st round games on home fields of top seeds"

Man. Could you imagine how awesome that would be?! The kickass matchups you'd get, gahh. I wish

Why stop there?

6 game season for rivalry maintenance, creation of adequate revenue, and a baseline for fair seeding (Sept 5 - Oct 10). 4 conference games/2 non-conference games

One week bye to create a reset and CV-19 isolation periods to ID any +s.

128 seed playoff starts 24 Oct.
-RD 1 (rd of 128): 24 October; high seed hosts
-RD 2 (rd of 64): 31 Oct; high seed hosts
- one week bye
-RD 3 (rd of 32): 14 Nov; high seed hosts
- one week bye to reset/test CV-19 and align for a big Thanksgiving FB weekend
- Rd 4 (Rd of 16): 26-28 Nov; high seed hosts
- 1 week bye; "secure" travel to and isolated lodging at all neutral site games in remainder of playoffs to mitigate travel exposure
- Rd 5 (Rd of 8): 11-12 Dec; neutral site
- 2 week bye to best ensure isolation and testing, and alignment for a New Years final 4
-RD 6 (rd of 4): 31 Dec-1 Jan; neutral site
- one week bye
-RD 7 (Finals): 15 Jan; neutral site Fri night game gets rid of awful Monday night championships

Creates a 13 game season for the teams in the finals. More than manageable and essentially is inclusive of all FBS football, except the couple in the very bottom of the barrel and they still get a half season.

Safety: biweekly player testing throughout; bye weeks and isolation restrictions included to create bubbles; other mitigation measures increase as games become more important/competitive.

First 6 games would matter, but mostly for bragging rights. Would create incentive for big OOC matchups with little downside.

Establish bowl game opportunities selected from the losers of Rd 1 through the Sweet 16 based on adjusted rankings after the Sweet 16. NY6 bowls pick first; remainder of the Bowl game selection order is based on lottery. Bowl game teams auto-selected as highest pairings of re-ranked teams in the lottery selection order.

1/3 fill all stadiums.

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This formula in the bcs era would’ve probably changed who the national champion is almost every year lol.

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Ummm outside of switching the order of the top 4 once ou\r twice the committee has matched the top 4 of the BCS every time...

Here is last years for reference

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4 teams are already too many sometimes, 8 Teams are way too many. Diluting the playoffs was correctly recognized as a bad idea before COVID.

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Youre misidentifying the problem. The idea is to keep CFB from collapsing under its own weight, which I believe is in imminent danger of happening. Limiting fan interest to the four teams at the top of the heap isn’t the way to do that.

The two regions would be defined thusly:

East - SEC, ACC, Notre Dame, and all G5 teams East of the Mississippi River
West- Big10, Big12, PAC12, BYU and all G5 teams West of the Mississippi River

Based on the chart DeathValley posted, lets use the top 16 from an amalgam of these two rankings and seed the 2019 16-team playoff field:



East Region
1) LSU
2) Clemson
3) UGa
4) Florida
5) Auburn
6) Bama
7) Notre Dame
8) Memphis

West Region
1) tOSU
2) Oklahoma
3) Oregon
4) Penn St
5) Baylor
6) Wisky
7) Utah
8) Michigan

Under my proposal the top four seeds in each region would host the bottom four from the other region, so the 2019 1st round matchups would have been:

Michgan @ LSU
Memphis @ tOSU
Utah @ Clemson
ND @ Oklahoma
Wisky @ UGa
Bama @ Oregon
Baylor @ Florida
AU @ Penn St

Couple of obvious stinkers in there, but a bunch of solid matchups as well. 2nd round more of the same, with the winners of the 1st round playing each other in the Rose, Cotton, Sugar and Orange bowls, with the higher seeds hosting the lower, once again with cross-regional matchups if possible.

There’s more, but I have real work to do

It should be left at four teams.

Screw making it regional, go with the top 16, top 8 host, 2 brackets (1 and 2 are the top seeds):

Last year (via BCS)
1 side:
Michigan @ LSU
Baylor @ Penn St
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Utah @ Oklahoma
Auburn @ Georgia

2 side:
Memphis @ Ohio St
Wisconsin @ Oregon
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Notre Dame @ Clemson
Alabama @ Florida

That's 5 SEC, 4 Big 10, 2 Big 12, 2 Pac 12, 1 ACC, 1 independent, and 1 non-P5. "Everybody" gets a shot, we get some decent 1st rd matchups and some potential later rd matchups worth watching...

That's 3 nasty defenses on Oklahoma's plate, do they make the Final 4? Does LSU win the Big 10 title too, if they beat Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State? Does Alabama make a run on the road, and take Clemson down before the Final 4?

16 team playoff and aTm STILL WOULD NOT MAKE IT.
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Georgia would lose in the first round.