Your plan for the college football postseason.

[samikeyp]

Use this thread to tell us how you would handle it.

Would you keep the BCS? Would you scrap it totally? What about the Bowls. This is not a bashing thread. This is your chance to play College Football God and do it your way.

What I would do...

1. The 11 conference champs and 5 at large teams qualify for the post season.
a. the five at large teams are determined by record at first then a system of tie breakers after that.

2. Those teams who do not have a Division 1 Football Conference affiliation better get one quick.
a. There are 4 D1 Independents. Army, Navy, Temple and Notre Dame. I would put them all in the Big East. ND already plays their other sports there and it would give that conference 12 members.

3. Use bowl game sites for the 15 games needed for the playoff. (Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Peach, Gator, Holiday, Alamo, Capitol One, Outback, Sun, Independence, MPC Computer and Liberty)

4. There are 31 bowl games....we take 15 for the playoff, we still have 16 bowl games left for 32 teams who qualify.

5. Teams would still need to have 6 wins to qualify for a bowl. Currently 56 teams are eligible..take away 16 for the playoff...you still have 40 so all the bowls could still field matchups.


Division 1 college football needs a playoff. If Division 1-AA, D2 and D3 can do it....the big boys can too. The majority of the games would be played while classes are out and the financial windfall for the schools is almost limitless.

I am not saying this is the right way....im just saying its some way.

[johngateswhiteley]

...after thinking about it, i would take the top 8 teams and just use a BCS formula to decide the top 8. if the smaller conference champs don't get in...boohoo. schedule some tougher preseason competition then or beat your weak opponents by more.

i am sure boise state and other teams fans will give me heat for this, but, i'm sorry, there is no way they can beat the top teams....but if by some chance they make the top 8, then fine.

[K-State Spur]

schedule some tougher preseason competition then or beat your weak opponents by more.


when the big boys won't play 'em and the system has already capped out margin of victory, there's not much they could do.

besides, even if they did play 4 tough non-conference games, they'd still probably be ineligible for the title due to strength of schedule and poll bias.

[K-State Spur]

Use this thread to tell us how you would handle it.

Would you keep the BCS? Would you scrap it totally? What about the Bowls. This is not a bashing thread. This is your chance to play College Football God and do it your way.

What I would do...

1. The 11 conference champs and 5 at large teams qualify for the post season.
a. the five at large teams are determined by record at first then a system of tie breakers after that.

2. Those teams who do not have a Division 1 Football Conference affiliation better get one quick.
a. There are 4 D1 Independents. Army, Navy, Temple and Notre Dame. I would put them all in the Big East. ND already plays their other sports there and it would give that conference 12 members.

3. Use bowl game sites for the 15 games needed for the playoff. (Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Peach, Gator, Holiday, Alamo, Capitol One, Outback, Sun, Independence, MPC Computer and Liberty)

4. There are 31 bowl games....we take 15 for the playoff, we still have 16 bowl games left for 32 teams who qualify.

5. Teams would still need to have 6 wins to qualify for a bowl. Currently 56 teams are eligible..take away 16 for the playoff...you still have 40 so all the bowls could still field matchups.


Division 1 college football needs a playoff. If Division 1-AA, D2 and D3 can do it....the big boys can too. The majority of the games would be played while classes are out and the financial windfall for the schools is almost limitless.

I am not saying this is the right way....im just saying its some way.


1. I like the 16 team format. It's the only way to ensure that every team in NCAA is ELIGIBLE to be a champion. It's ridiculous that we start the season every year with about half the participants in college football ineligible (meaning that they could do everything right and it still doesn't matter) for the ultimate crown.

2. The Big East already has 16 for basketball, so good luck getting them to take on more. I'll allow for special provisions to be made for independents (cough - i mean ND) like we have now if it just gets us a playoff.

3. Not possible. You'd have to play at least the first two rounds on the higher seed's home field. Most fans can't afford to travel to 4 different bowl sites over 4 weeks to follow their teams. Ideally, we'd have a final 4 type site where maybe we can get the semifinals and the final done over the course of 5 days (no quicker turnaround than a saturday/thursday games), although that may not work with logistics either.

[Brutalis]

Me and some friends at work are going to try and make arrangements to attent the Hogs bowl game. Hopefully it's the NC but looks like the Sugar.