BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Also, 14 is an absolutely gross number for a bracket. You know it will be up to 16 by 2030.

 

I wrote a column several years back on alternate ways to fill the NCAA basketball tournament and one of the ideas I had was Champions League-style allocation for conferences based on where they ranked in the conference NET (might have been RPI at the time).

This isn’t quite that, because the allocation doesn’t change based on yearly conference strength, but who are we fooling here? Even if those were left as at-large berths, they’d almost certainly be gobbled up by schools from those conferences anyway.

I understand why critics are panning it, but I don’t hate it.

 

It also puts the squeeze on Notre Dame, which now has only one of three at large slots to play for each fall.

 

And 16 makes a Fat Two #4 all but certain to get in.

 

If they're going to do rankings, I want the BCS nerd computer back, not a bunch of fanboy sportswriters or coaches. Load real data into an equation and let the chips fall where they may.

 

Conference champions should get automatic bids. Everything else should be handed out on an at-large basis.

 

You are going to have deserving fourth-place teams in these super conferences because of the unbalanced schedules. Someone will be fourth with one or two losses depending on ties

 

Okay this can fuck off.

SEC, Big Ten would hold rights to first-round byes in new proposed CFP format

 

Has it been decided yet how the television money will be split?

 

You know damn well how

 

The Big Ten could get 16 playoff spots and James Franklin would still find a way to not qualify.

 

I don't have a big problem with pre-set conference allocation. History has shown those conferences are likely to get those bids.

I do have a sizable problem with merit-less byes for conferences that may or may not have earned it.

I guess it's up to the fans to decide how much greed they can endure. My guess? Fans complain a lot, but they seem to have a bottomless reservoir of tolerance for this type of shit when the chips are down and they have to spend money or decide whether or whether they don't watch.

It won't happen, but it would be interesting if the ACC, Big 12 and Group of Five told the Big Ten and SEC to fuck off. Go ahead. Have your private playoff. See whether the public gives it any legitimacy.

It won't happen because most of those ACC and Big 12 schools want in the cool club to begin with and a lot of the public would give it legitimacy.