Congratulations to the Auburn Tigers for defeating the Oregon Ducks tonight. I was indifferent as to who I wanted to win this game, and enjoyed an exciting finish to the game.
Once again, tonight just reminded us that we need a playoff in college football. TCU, while not in a BCS conference, did go undefeated and beat a highly ranked Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.
I propose a radical geographic realignment, creating 11 conferences with 12 teams each. From there, using the BCS rankings formula:
1. Have everyone play the other 11 teams in their conference for an 11 game regular season, then take the 11 champs and send them to a playoff with the top 5 ranked non-conference teams. If you can't win your conference, you really don't deserve a playoff spot, so no bitching if you're not one of the 5 non-conference winners to make it. Or, if they want to have a more diverse year-to-year schedule, split the 11 conferences into two 6-team divisions, have them play 8 conference games, 3 non-conference games, and throw in a big money-making conference championship game. Championship weekend would feature 11 games with the winners clinching a spot in the playoffs. Tell me that wouldn't make for a huge money-making weekend! Each conference would have a pre-determined host city.
2. You then have a 16 team, single elimination tournament, using the rankings to determine seeds. You then let the highest-seeded team in each matchup host the game all the way until the Final 4 while allowing the Bowl Games to go on as usual with non-playoff teams.
3. Have a Final Four weekend in 2 of the BCS cities to determine the championship matchup.
4. The following weekend, the title game will be held in a 3rd BCS city. The 4th city gets left out every 4 years. College Football would make a killing with this, so deal with it Miami, New Orleans, Phoenix, and Pasadena.
In the end, the final 2 would play 16 games. 2 others would play 15, and everyone else would play no more than they do now. Taking into account the Conference Championships, you're looking at 26 playoff games that mean something, plus you still get the Bowl games.
What do you think of this proposal? I will list my conference alignments in a future blog.
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