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Covid may finally cause NCAA-Power 5 split

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Rellyrell said:
So how would this work? Would we go back to the days of claimed & unclaimed national championships? Would UCF be the “FTW” champion as they crown themselves champions?

Like I’m asking a real question; b/c it was real weird on deeming who’s champion back in the day. Would it be strictly predicated on voters like coaches and writers? If so, what’s to prevent coaches from a certain conference having bias or writer for that matter?
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We dealt with biased writers and voters for many decades.

Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, UCLA, USC, and Alabama all benefitted from biased votes - which kept a few near the top all season long - enabling them to rotate picking up National Championships. Some were split - depending on the coaches poll or national poll.

Just take the top 64 teams at the end of a season, and start the playoffs.

Start the playoffs two weeks after the final regular season games - and six weeks later - you have your National Champions.

Keeps the teams fresh and in synch with playing - and you still end up with a National Champion at just about the same time.

Rotate the major bowls for the Sweet Sixteen.

This isn't hard.

And more meaningful revenue for college footballs.
 
UMFarArcher said:
We dealt with biased writers and voters for many decades.

Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, UCLA, USC, and Alabama all benefitted from biased votes - which kept a few near the top all season long - enabling them to rotate picking up National Championships. Some were split - depending on the coaches poll or national poll.

Just take the top 64 teams at the end of a season, and start the playoffs.

Start the playoffs two weeks after the final regular season games - and six weeks later - you have your National Champions.

Keeps the teams fresh and in synch with playing - and you still end up with a National Champion at just about the same time.

Rotate the major bowls for the Sweet Sixteen.

This isn't hard.

And more meaningful revenue for college footballs.
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Right, because fans are going to be able to book travel - with six days advance notice - for four straight weeks.

Before you bring up basketball, they put four teams at a time in 18,000 seat arenas.
 
UMFarArcher said:
We dealt with biased writers and voters for many decades.

Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, UCLA, USC, and Alabama all benefitted from biased votes - which kept a few near the top all season long - enabling them to rotate picking up National Championships. Some were split - depending on the coaches poll or national poll.

Just take the top 64 teams at the end of a season, and start the playoffs.

Start the playoffs two weeks after the final regular season games - and six weeks later - you have your National Champions.

Keeps the teams fresh and in synch with playing - and you still end up with a National Champion at just about the same time.

Rotate the major bowls for the Sweet Sixteen.

This isn't hard.

And more meaningful revenue for college footballs.
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I like it; no lie.

But logistics may be a problem due to crowd traffic.
 
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Good **** the NCAA. At a minimum, Football needs to break apart and form 4 conferences of 16 teams each. Top 64 football programs included. Bottom 2 teams move down and top 2 teams in lower tier moves up (similar to Soccer). Top 2 teams in each conference play eachother for Conference Championship (Not Division winner or any of that BS, just top 2 teams). That is a defacto 8 team playoff. Winners of conference play in the CFP.
 
Bowl committees just said that this new conference only format might cause a problem for bowl games. Said some deserving teams may be left out.
 
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