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HurricaneKush

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I've admittedly had a few rips of that Seantrell Kush, but I came up with an improvement to the current College Football system so logical that there has to be a good reason why nobody has wanted to do it. My guess would be pushback comes from the Schools, because the NCAA knows that March Madness is a huge draw and would probably like to see that moreso in footbal. I'm not super plugged in to the leagalese of the NCAA and Conferences deals with schools, so if anybody know wether this has been discussed or would never work, please inform me how high and stupid I am.

Teams play 2 games in the non-conference schedule Instead of 4. Room for a rival and a cupcake.
Conference play starts sooner, maybe Eliminate championship week to buy a week.

After conference play is seeding for the tournament. It should really be 32 Teams. 64 would be really fun though, would just take too long.

Since the bowls already don't matter, save the bowls for teams that didn't make the playoffs, or extend the bowl bid once they've been eliminated. You can still keep all the prestigious classic bowls, just use the top tier teams in the final rounds after they've been eliminated. Once a team's season is over, if you can find some corporate sponsor for a game, that should be the schools call on scheduling. Have as many bowls as you want. The playoffs would be 8 times more inclusive to different fan bases, would keep more people invested in the season.

2 Game Non-Conference
8 Game Conference Schedule
Tournament Seeding 1-32 based on resume
5 Week Maximum Tournment length
Once teams have been eliminated, let them play a bowl game or two.


Why not?
 
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HurricaneKush said:
I've admittedly had a few rips of that Seantrell Kush, but I came up with an improvement to the current College Football system so logical that there has to be a good reason why nobody has wanted to do it. My guess would be pushback comes from the Schools, because the NCAA knows that March Madness is a huge draw and would probably like to see that moreso in footbal. I'm not super plugged in to the leagalese of the NCAA and Conferences deals with schools, so if anybody know wether this has been discussed or would never work, please inform me how high and stupid I am.

Teams play 2 games in the non-conference schedule Instead of 4. Room for a rival and a cupcake.
Conference play starts sooner, maybe Eliminate championship week to buy a week.

After conference play is seeding for the tournament. It should really be 32 Teams. 64 would be really fun though, would just take too long.

Since the bowls already don't matter, save the bowls for teams that didn't make the playoffs, or extend the bowl bid once they've been eliminated. You can still keep all the prestigious classic bowls, just use the top tier teams in the final rounds after they've been eliminated. Once a team's season is over, if you can find some corporate sponsor for a game, that should be the schools call on scheduling. Have as many bowls as you want. The playoffs would be 8 times more inclusive to different fan bases, would keep more people invested in the season.

2 Game Non-Conference
8 Game Conference Schedule
Tournament Seeding 1-32 based on resume
5 Week Maximum Tournment length
Once teams have been eliminated, let them play a bowl game or two.


Why not?
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Whats the point of the regular season if everyone gets lumped into a huge crapshoot playoff anyway? I mean aren't these regular season games exciting right now?

The larger the playoff the more the regular season doesn't mean ****.

You're choosing a boring regular season + crapshoot playoff

over

Every game being meaningful. Don't lose 2 games, and if you lose one you better win some big games.

The playoff addiction in this country needs to stop. All you're doing is creating a boring bulk of the season for an exciting few games
 
Stopped reading when it became clear the OP wasn't doing the right narcotics and didn't realize that an 8 team Playoff (5 conf winners + 3 at large) is the only right answer.
 
6 team playoff just like the NFL.

#1 & #2 seeds get a bye, #3 vs #6 & #4 vs #5

ACC, SEC, B1G, Big XII, PAC-12 & Top ranked G5.

Problem solved.
 
There will never be enough teams in the playoff. ****, look at college basketball. Started as a 16 team tournament, then 32, then 64, now they have a play-in game because there were too many people crying about bubble teams. So now you get .500 teams making the post season tournament.

Put me in the category of wanting to go back to the bowl system but with no bowl ties so we can match teams up accurately, then letting voters vote on it... Thus allowing us to argue about that **** for eternity. THAT is college football.
 
DaU83 said:
8 teams. That's the only answer.
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I like this. I’d add that a scenario w 4 super conferences of 18 teams each would result in the conference championship games being round 1.
So the season itself still greatly matters. You might see bigger non conference match ups BC they’d help prepare for post season and not be a road block to it.
 
I liked the system where we played in the game that decided the NC every year and everyone hated us. So whatever that was.
 
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8 team playoff is best. I don't like any playoff proposal that includes byes. Play your way to the championship. No byes
 
6 conferences of 16 teams divided into 2 eight team divisions. Each team plays everyone from their division plus 2 from the other side, rotating yearly. Every conference has a championship game with all 6 winners getting in. Then add 2 at large teams and you have an 8 team playoff. The rest of the teams could play in the traditional bowls based on regular season results.
 
Eight team playoff is a great way to ruin college football. Why does anybody care to see a team like the loser of UGA and Alabama get a shot at the title? Did we need a bunch of 10 and 2 teams to get a title shot? Was Clemson not a valid national champ last year because Penn State didn’t get a shot at the title?

College football is the best because it’s not like any other sport. Why so many people want it to be like the NFL? It’s sad that it’s inevitable. The playoff will keep expanding and it will water down the regular season. Hey, lose that big non conference game in the beginning of the year..who cares? You can even drop another conference game or two, and still make it in. And why even schedule a big OOC game if you’re doing automatic bids?

I don’t hate the four team playoff, but it has been disappointing. Almost every semi final game has been a blowout.

People keep saying an eight team playoff is the only answer. The only answer to what?
 
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Four team playoff is perfect. Go through history. It would solve every problem.

Eight team playoff is a disgrace and a great way to ruin the best regular season in sports.

My only tweak is that non-conference champions should not be allowed in the playoffs.
 
32 teams? My man it’s called the regular season


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DMoney said:
Four team playoff is perfect. Go through history. It would solve every problem.

Eight team playoff is a disgrace and a great way to ruin the best regular season in sports.

My only tweak is that non-conference champions should not be allowed in the playoffs.
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I suppose. I don't see the 8 team playoff being as bad as you think - it kind of makes sense with our current bowl structure. You have 5 major bowls (Sugar, Fiesta, Cotton, OB, Rose). You run your 8 teams through 4 of those bowls (rotate every year) and then in the 5th bowl, you play your NCG. Only problem is that you have to shift around your regular season a bit b/c it adds a game.
 
Tony Perps said:
Eight team playoff is a great way to ruin college football. Why does anybody care to see a team like the loser of UGA and Alabama get a shot at the title? Did we need a bunch of 10 and 2 teams to get a title shot? Was Clemson not a valid national champ last year because Penn State didn’t get a shot at the title?

College football is the best because it’s not like any other sport. Why so many people want it to be like the NFL? It’s sad that it’s inevitable. The playoff will keep expanding and it will water down the regular season. Hey, lose that big non conference game in the beginning of the year..who cares? You can even drop another conference game or two, and still make it in. And why even schedule a big OOC game if you’re doing automatic bids?

I don’t hate the four team playoff, but it has been disappointing. Almost every semi final game has been a blowout.

People keep saying an eight team playoff is the only answer. The only answer to what?
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Because the talking heads are thinking about putting the loser of the uga bama game in there anyways... I also think there needs to he more objective system for rankings.. bama has to lose to not be a one seed because they always start at the top...
 
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Get rid of the playoff.

Go back to old bowl system, and let everyone argue for 8 months over who is number 1 until the next season starts. Split champions makes it even crazier.

So much more fun.
 
DerekDohrman said:
Liberty City El said:
6 team playoff just like the NFL.

#1 & #2 seeds get a bye, #3 vs #6 & #4 vs #5

ACC, SEC, B1G, Big XII, PAC-12 & Top ranked G5.

Problem solved.
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ive always argued this is how it should be
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Can't just go with one at-large because you're going to get stuck with some bad conference champions. Gotta leave room for teams that deserve to be there but lost just the conference championship game or that went 11-1 and only lost to the conference champion.
 
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