PLAY-offs?!?!?! (/jim_mora)

I think that Louisville deserves that 4th spot.

 

The way LSU is playing now, it might be the best team in the SEC. Same could have been said about Auburn at the end of last season.

 

I see 24 teams and the complaints that "no one will be able to complain." Tell that to the NCAA Selection Committee.

Always will be a whiner out there.

Rarely does the crapshoot go beyond four teams. This year is one of those rare deals since USC pooped the bed yesterday. A plus-one, which would involve pushing back the championship game just a couple days so teams had time to recover after Jan. 1, would do the trick.

 

That's fine, but the whining in the NCAA Tournament is about which mediocre Big Ten team doesn't get the 14th seed, not who gets to play in the title game. Big difference.

 

16 teams - Four rounds, scale the regular season back to 10 (or maybe 11) games.

Automatic bids:
Ohio State (Big Ten champ)
Florida (SEC champ)
Louisville (Big East champ)
Oklahoma (Big 12 champ)
Wake Forest (ACC champ)
USC (Pac-10 champ)

At-large bids:
Michigan, LSU, Auburn, Wisconsin, Boise State, Notre Dame, Arkansas, West Virginia, Rutgers, one more

BYU, California, Virginia Tech, Texas, Tennessee all could make a case for the last bid.

If every other level of college football can have a playoff, D-I can do it.

 

they will never get rid of the bowls. these are massive corporate entities that won't just go away and won't stand by idly if the ncaa declared them to be worthless like the NIT did 30-40 years ago or whenever the NCAA tournament started.

all the bowls can be part of the playoff system and the bowls will love it. the lesser bowls will serve as first and second round game hosts. so for example, top-seeded ohio state would play its first game at something like the micron computers bowl, a second round game at whatever bowl and then the national championship at one of the current bowls.

the playoff system would also eliminate the travesty of 6-6 teams like miami being rewarded for anything.

 

No, to hell with that nonsense. Ohio State should be home right through the semis as long as the Buckeyes keep winning. It's not fair to the fans to continually have them travelling hither and yon (not that anybody in the BCS cares about anybody as trivial as the fans).

 

That's true, but which is a better scenario: Gnashing teeth over who the 24th-best team in the country is, or gnashing teech over who the second-best team in the country is? BTW, 24 teams would require eight play-in games, wouldn't it? 16 or 32 would be better. I-AA does it with 16, and I can't imagine there being a necessity for any more than that. Eight, I think, would be ideal.

 

n_w, I don't care if there is gnashing of teeth over No. 2 -- as long as there's no gnashing of teeth over No. 1.

 

Semis
No. 4 Boise State vs. No. 1 Ohio State
No. 3 Florida vs. No. 2 Michigan