re: 8 team playoff ncaa!

I'd like to see an 8 team playoff... but with a different set of qualifications to get there. Picture if you will...

1. Six 12 team FBS conferences. 72 teams. That's it. Your national champion will come out of this pool. All six will be regional in nature.

2. Welcome to the concept of relegation. Every two years, the bottom/worst team in each of the six conferences are OUT. Vandy, see you later. Louisville, welcome to the SEC. You'd better win. And Boise St just replaced Oregon St in the PAC 12. And so forth. Teams who do well will have a chance to play themselves in. If they can't cut it, they will leave just as fast.

3. Mandatory scheduling within the six power conferences. I.e., every team will play their five division opponents on a home/away basis. Every team will play three opponents from the other division on a home and away basis. Every team will play two games from the other power conferences on a set schedule with no favoritism - such as SEC-W-2 plays PAC12-N-3 and ACC-C-4 with home/aways. This leaves two games to schedule outside the power six conferences and cut deals with the small teams to get your home host numbers up.

4. Playoff will consist of the six league champions plus two at large, seed them going in and play it out. Champion is crowned.

Benefits:

Set schedules that are predictable, yet allows some freedom to host rivals outside your conference. Fresh inter-sectional match ups, you may see some teams you've never played before. And visit locations as fans you've never been to before. Nobody can whine - if your teams wants to play for the championship, just earn your way in. It's that simple. But if you suck, you're out. But you can earn your way back.

This type of method would be great. JMHO.

6 (Power 5 champs + 1 at large) is the perfect number IMO. It eliminates subjectivity and renders conference championships meaningful.

The BCS was fine. Every team was/is in the playoff. It's called the regular season.

I can live with four teams in a playoff, but no more than that.

I guess my thing is most years I can think of maybe 5 - 6 teams who would have a good argument.

But still, four teams beats the old system.

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It's called the regular season.

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Yep. All of those losses yesterday would practically be meaningless if we expanded. Last year, we would've had teams with 2 & 3 losses in the playoff. That's crazy. If we're handing out byes, the bitching about subjectively awarding the bye when #2 & #3 are pretty close would be inevitable. Not to mention the moment we expand to 8, morons will be clamoring for a 16 team playoff.

We have a pretty good system now and it will never be perfect no matter how what we do to the post season. College Football is a great sport as it is. There's no need to fundamentally change the game.

The best idea Ive seen floated is

8 team playoff

P5 conference champions + top 3 ranked teams that were not conference champions.

If a non P5 conference champion is ranked in the top 12, they are allowed the #8 seed (opening playoff to theoretically all 128 teams)

At least first round is on campus sites

2014:
Michigan State (At-Large) at Alabama (SEC Champ)
Baylor (Big 12 champ) at Ohio State (Big Ten champ)
TCU (At-Large) at Florida State (ACC Champ)
Mississippi State (At-Large) at Oregon (Pac 12 Champ)

First Two Out: Ole Miss, Arizona
Highest Non P5: Boise State (20)

2015:
Notre Dame (At-Large) at Clemson (ACC Champ)
Stanford (Pac 12 Champ) at Oklahoma (Big 12 Champ)
Iowa (At-Large) at Michigan State (Big Ten Champ)
Ohio State (At-Large) at Alabama (SEC Champ)

First Two Out: Florida State, North Carolina
Highest Non P5: Houston (18)

2016:
Wisconsin (At-Large) at Alabama (SEC Champ)
Oklahoma (Big 12 Champ) at Washington (Pac 12 Champ)
Penn State (At-Large) at Ohio State (Big Ten Champ)
Michigan (At-Large) at Clemson (ACC Champ)

First Two Out: USC, Colorado
Highest Non P5: Western Michigan (15)