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re: Why not go to 4 Super Conferences?
Posted on 12/6/17 at 11:54 am to deltaland
Posted on 12/6/17 at 11:54 am to deltaland
So, in the SEC, if the winner of the division containing Arky, Tennercee, Vandy, and USCe, wins their division with a 3-6 conference record, then gets lucky for 2 games and beats 1-loss Georgia and 1-loss Alabama for the conference title, they should be in the Playoffs?
NO!
NO!
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Posted on 12/6/17 at 11:55 am to deltaland
Sure lets destroy whats left of what made college football great.
Leaving OSU out is what makes college football great. You cant screw up twice. The regular season matters.
NFL. Seattle made the playoffs with a losing record a few years ago. I dont want that chance.
Leaving OSU out is what makes college football great. You cant screw up twice. The regular season matters.
NFL. Seattle made the playoffs with a losing record a few years ago. I dont want that chance.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 11:59 am to AlaCowboy
If that is a backhanded slap at AU, unfair. Just beating UGA & Bama was a huge accomplishment, so damn hard to beat 3 elite teams in such a short span. AU is just as elite this year, even ic left out of the playoff
Posted on 12/6/17 at 12:40 pm to deltaland
I like it. But minor modifications:
-4 16-team super conferences
-Each Conference has four 4 team divisions
-play everyone in your division and half of teams in every other division for a total of 9 conference games (3+2+2+2) and rotate the other division opponents every other year
-play one team from each of the other super conferences for a total of 3 OOC games (still a 12 game regular season)
-conference championships play directly into the playoffs. Each division winner squares off in a four team mini conference playoff.
-conference champions meet in a national 4 team playoff
-brings total possible games to 16 games, the same as FCS, and DAMN GOOD FOOTBALL!
This way the regular season matters and conference championships matter.
-4 16-team super conferences
-Each Conference has four 4 team divisions
-play everyone in your division and half of teams in every other division for a total of 9 conference games (3+2+2+2) and rotate the other division opponents every other year
-play one team from each of the other super conferences for a total of 3 OOC games (still a 12 game regular season)
-conference championships play directly into the playoffs. Each division winner squares off in a four team mini conference playoff.
-conference champions meet in a national 4 team playoff
-brings total possible games to 16 games, the same as FCS, and DAMN GOOD FOOTBALL!
This way the regular season matters and conference championships matter.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:04 pm to deltaland
Because leagues aren't equal and they never will be. Having an equal number of teams doesn't change that. The most watched sporting event in the world is the UEFA Champions League. They do it right. They pick the best teams from each league and have a massive tournament. While each domestic league usually has 20 teams, they don't just take the top team. England usually gets 4 spots, Spain gets 4, the Germans get 2 or 3. And some countries get none. And this is always changing. Every single time a team from any country plays in a UEFA competition, the results impact how many teams make the Champions League the following season. The English Premier League currently gets 4, but if they keep shitting the bed, they won't.
This is how it should be in college football. All out of conference matchups, including bowl games more importantly, should be used to determine a conference coefficient, and the following season, the best conferences should be rewarded with automatic bids and minimum seeding the playoff.
12 teams with the top 4 seeds getting a bye. If the SEC's OOC results in the regular season and in Bowl Season this year truly are the best, then next year the SEC Champ should get an automatic bid to the top 4. The other Power 5 Champs should only be gauranteed a top 12 spot. And if the Big 12 keeps struggling, then let the AAC prove their worth on the field and by scheduling tougher opponents, beating them, and earning a spot to replace them with an automatic bid.
It will make every out of conference matchup important. It will make every bowl game important. It will make college football the most watched sport in America by a large margin as well.
This is how it should be in college football. All out of conference matchups, including bowl games more importantly, should be used to determine a conference coefficient, and the following season, the best conferences should be rewarded with automatic bids and minimum seeding the playoff.
12 teams with the top 4 seeds getting a bye. If the SEC's OOC results in the regular season and in Bowl Season this year truly are the best, then next year the SEC Champ should get an automatic bid to the top 4. The other Power 5 Champs should only be gauranteed a top 12 spot. And if the Big 12 keeps struggling, then let the AAC prove their worth on the field and by scheduling tougher opponents, beating them, and earning a spot to replace them with an automatic bid.
It will make every out of conference matchup important. It will make every bowl game important. It will make college football the most watched sport in America by a large margin as well.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:06 pm to Sev09
I like your rotation. But I wish we would blow up all of this division talk. Divisions Are a BS way of determining who gets Into championship play. First of all, the division winner has to beat just five other teams. Secondly, outside the division play or outside the conference play, doesn’t really matter to the division winner/conference winners Auto -qualifying group Of thinkers.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:11 pm to deltaland
Can the SEC kick SJWu (Missouri) out to do so? Who would could we replace them with.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:12 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Quote: So they are the new BCS?
Hey at least those teams are getting to compete for a championship at that point. At this point they truthfully are not. Look at Central Florida...undefeated and not even sniffing the final four games.
I'd rather see 4 major super conferences battle it out for the tier 1 NCAA D-1 championship, then the next 4 or 8 conferences battle for the tier 2 NCAA D-1 championship.
Hey at least those teams are getting to compete for a championship at that point. At this point they truthfully are not. Look at Central Florida...undefeated and not even sniffing the final four games.
I'd rather see 4 major super conferences battle it out for the tier 1 NCAA D-1 championship, then the next 4 or 8 conferences battle for the tier 2 NCAA D-1 championship.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:20 pm to thecoachcarter
Why not get rid of conferences all together.... get rid of conference championship games and play the first round (16 teams) of the playoffs two weeks after the end of the season.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:42 pm to AUstar
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Unfortunately ESPN and the REC
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and the REC
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:43 pm to kingbob
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That’s not too bad, but I just know LSU would end up in a shitty division with A&M, Arkansas, and Mizzou.
How do they decide which teams make the conference title game?
The team with the best conference record in each division goes to a conference playoff. For example the winner of north division plays winner of south division while east winner plays west winner. The winners of these 2 games play each other for the conference championship. Conference champion goes to the 4 team national playoff.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 1:47 pm to deltaland
:thumbsdown:
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:01 pm to deltaland
Kick the bottom 2 from each conference out each year and let the top 8 from the lower level into the "Super Conferences"
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:08 pm to deltaland
So you're excluding half of FBS teams from even the opportunity of a national championship????????????
Why would you do this?
Why would you do this?
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:13 pm to deltaland
Also, do you realize how much infrastructure would have to be changed for this? This would be an ultra-expensive move for damn near every university (every Power 5 university, because you seem to just be ignoring the group of 5 universities). It's like telling the internet to change the way HTTP and networking works. It's too established to change. The cost of changing it heavily out-weighs the benefits it may present.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:30 pm to deltaland
Great idea! Email this to the NCAA and Conference heads immediately...So that they can print it off...and use it as toilet paper.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:35 pm to deltaland
Why play OOC games if they don’t impact anything?
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:38 pm to deltaland
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Why not go to 4 Super Conferences?
Just split the Big 12 Up among SEC and Pac 12
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:42 pm to BurgTiger
8 ten team conferences, 9 game round robin conference schedule to decide champions, 12 game regular season.
8 team conference champs CFB playoff.
80 D1 teams so no one on the fringe gets left out and Bowl system can be left in place like now to award teams that didn't make the 8 team playoff.
8 team conference champs CFB playoff.
80 D1 teams so no one on the fringe gets left out and Bowl system can be left in place like now to award teams that didn't make the 8 team playoff.
This post was edited on 12/6/17 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 12/6/17 at 2:57 pm to deltaland
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Say 16 team conferences With each conference having 4 divisions with 4 teams each
No.
No more effing expansion of the SEC.
Not unless we agree to more conference games which is currently a non starter.
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