RE-organization of the conferences/Playoffs

[scar988]

Taking the idea of 10 12 team conferences from someone else, here's what I would like to see done:

ACC
Atlantic
Boston College
Wake Forest
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
North Carolina State
COASTAL
Virginia Tech
Virginia
Georgia Tech
North Carolina
Miami (FL)
Duke

Big 12
NORTH
Kansas
Missouri
Colorado
Kansas State
Nebraska
Iowa State
SOUTH
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas Tech
Oklahoma State
Texas A&M
Baylor

Big Ten
OSU division
Ohio State
Illinois
Iowa
Purdue
Indiana
Northwestern
Michigan division
Michigan
Wisconsin
Penn State
Michigan State
Minnesota
Notre Dame

Big East
North
Connecticut
Rutgers
Cincinnati
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
South
South Florida
UCF
West Virginia
Louisville
Navy

Pacific-10
North
Oregon State
Oregon
Washington State
Washington
California
Stanford
South
USC
Arizona State
UCLA
Arizona
Fresno State
Hawaii

SEC
EAST
Georgia
Tennessee
Florida
Kentucky
South Carolina
Vanderbilt
WEST
LSU
Auburn
Arkansas
Mississippi State
Alabama
Mississippi

Conference USA
EAST
Bowling Green
East Carolina
Memphis
Southern Miss
Marshall
UAB
WEST
Tulsa
Houston
Tulane
Rice
UTEP
Southern Methodist

MAC
EAST
Miami (OH)
Buffalo
Ohio
Temple
Akron
Kent State
WEST
Central Michigan
Ball State
Western Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Toledo
Northern Illinois

WAC
North
Boise State
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Utah State
Brigham Young
Air Force
South
San Jose State
New Mexico State
New Mexico
San Diego State
UNLV
Nevada
Colorado State

Sun Belt
East
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Troy
Middle Tennessee
Western Kentucky
Army
West
Arkansas State
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Monroe
Louisiana Tech
North Texas
TCU

winner of every conference championship gets a free bid to the 16 team playoffs with the top 6 teams left also getting a bid

[Walter]

Awesome

[scar988]

seriously? I had trouble at WAC and MWC so I just combined them for a 14 team conference

[PuppyPuncher]

TCU would be so pissed off.

[Walter]

Anything that produces a 16-game playoff is something I'd be in favor of.

[EL Guapo]

Sixteen teams will take meaning and juice away from some big regular season games. I want to see playoffs but sixteen is a lot.

[MMONTERO]

Sixteen teams will take meaning and juice away from some big regular season games. I want to see playoffs but sixteen is a lot.

Sixteen is nothing. It's a lot less than the number of teams who play bowl games every year and it's only a six team increase over the current BCS games.

[Walter]

The regular season doesn't mean much right now anyway... think about it, once a team loses a game, they have nothing to play for. For example, if Team X is 8-3, they have nothing to play for in their 12th game. But with an at-large bid on the line, 9-3 could make all the difference.

[EL Guapo]

Sixteen is nothing. It's a lot less than the number of teams who play bowl games every year and it's only a six team increase over the current BCS games.

If the 2nd ranked team plays the 4th ranked team late in the year, all those teams have to do is not fall past rank 16.


This is not using scar’s system which is better.

[EL Guapo]

The regular season doesn't mean much right now anyway... think about it, once a team loses a game, they have nothing to play for. For example, if Team X is 8-3, they have nothing to play for in their 12th game. But with an at-large bid on the line, 9-3 could make all the difference.

That's true. Keeps a lot more excitement at more colleges.

[MMONTERO]

If the 2nd ranked team plays the 4th ranked team late in the year, all those teams have to do is not fall past rank 16.


This is not using scar’s system which is better.

I would assume in a sixteen team playoff system that rank would go out the window and records would take over along with a set of tiebreakers. It's the only way a playoff system could stave off the controversy facing the BCS right now.

[TRICKaz]

I really like this. But wouldn't you have to divide it all into like 2 conferences? North and South, East West something like that? Also I think they could add a plus one game for the bowls. Like take the 2 conference losers and play them in the Rose Bowl because that's one of the biggest arguments against a college playoff is that the bowl games lose their value.

Also I like how the big ten is divided into OSU and Michigan divisions...hilarious.

[scar988]

Sixteen is nothing. It's a lot less than the number of teams who play bowl games every year and it's only a six team increase over the current BCS games.

there would still be bowls for the teams not in the playoffs and the final games in the tournament (double elimination) will be called bowls. like Rose bowl for the 7th place game. it would give us a defined top 16.

[Matt McGuire]

16 team playoff would be a waste of time. The #8 team in the country wouldn't stand a chance in a playoff.

4 team playoff based off the top 4 teams in the BCS, first round matchups can not be in-conference.

[MMONTERO]

16 team playoff would be a waste of time. The #8 team in the country wouldn't stand a chance in a playoff.

4 team playoff based off the top 4 teams in the BCS, first round matchups can not be in-conference.

That doesn't leave enough excitement for enough colleges which was the aim of the BCS and the reason there isn't already a playoff in place so this idea isn't really feasible.