Running bowl thread

Heck, I don't even want a big, drawn-out, 16-team playoff.

Four spots, with undefeated teams getting automatic bids and the rest selected by whatever mechanism you want, with seeding being as arbitrary and selected as you want. In the once-a-decade or so event that you have more than four teams undefeated, instant play-in game(s) the week after the regular season ends between the lowest seeds.

 

Obviously the first thing we'd do is detach all of the Division I football schools from their conferences - conferences would exist for all the other sports but we'd restructure.

And I think we could structure it around the basic frame work we have right now already - every conference is two divisions with a championship game.

You have the Big East, for instance, add Army, Navy and Notre Dame and Boston College.

You take Vanderbilt and move it to the ACC and add someone like Southern Miss to the SEC

Add Missouri to the Big Ten and SMU or someone to the Big 12

And so on and so forth.

Yes, some conferences would still be stronger than others -- but that is what the wild card is for, so the SEC, for instance could get a second team in.

 

Too small. Sixteen works for the other divisions in football. It would work for Division I-A.

 

The simple solution for the NCAA is to enforce the FCS membership rules it has on the books already and cut down the number of FCS members. Either that, or kowtow to the reality of the moment and let the BCS run the show as usual, in which case you still have the haves and have-nots.

The better solution is to split the FCS and hold separate national tournaments for the BCS schools and for the second-tier schools, and split D-I three ways in football instead of the present two. The schools that can compete in the higher division like TCU and Boise can bail out of their second-rate leagues, and the Troys and CMUs can compete for their own championship.

 

I guess TCU is the favorite of Texas conservatives and eastern liberals. Oh wait, there's Cincy from that region (Big East).

Look this is an example of what goes on every day in Washington and yet those hypocrites are the ones who are talking about intervention.

 

Actually, the better solution is to destroy the BCfuckingS by any means necessary and have one 16-team Division I-A playoff.

 

You really think the BCS schools are going to add more schools? So you just want to relegate TCU and Boise State to a second-tier championship? Can you say law suit if that happened.

Tell what the hell makes Baylor, Texas A&M, Okie Light, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, any Big East team other than West Virginia, most ACC schools, Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois and other better than TCU or Boise State and BCS schools?

 

So who gets left out of your four team playoff this year?

Alabama?
Texas?
Cincinnati?
Boise?
TCU?

 

Read it again.

 

Uh, FCS is Division 1-AA.
If you can't get the stupid divisions right, your argument doesn't have a shred of credibility.

 

the notion of a playoff with an undefined number of teams is ridiculous and would never happen. it's a joke that someone would even propose such a thing.

 

TCU-Cincy in the Fiesta Bowl.
Boise State-Florida in the Sugar Bowl.

The Fiesta Bowl passed on Cincy -- an undefeated BCS-conference champion -- to pick Boise State. To me, picking Cincy would have accomplished the same thing the Fiesta Bowl wanted in its game (No. 1-ranked defense vs. powerful offense) but with a pairing of teams we haven't seen on the field before. Boise State then would have been the last team left, going to the Sugar Bowl to play the Gators.

So you still have the No. 1-ranked defense against a powerful offense in a matchup of undefeated teams ranked No. 3 and No. 4 in the Fiesta Bowl, and you still have Tim Tebow play an undefeated, underappreciated team in the Sugar Bowl. Instead, it's TCU-Boise State in a bowl for the second consecutive season, and for the third time in seven seasons.