New college football formula?

[buckaroo]

It happens every year that someone feels as though the system is unfair and that someone has been left out of the title picture because of the faulty system. There has even been co-champs over the years because of this faulty system. I've heard several different scenarios for a good play-off system, the best that of which is an eight team playoff for the title. But even at that, there will be those who cry foul and the biggest criers will be those who win their conference but will be outside the top 8 in the rankings.

Here's the one that I think is the best. First off, I hate the college football ranking system, but it's been around for all of my life and beyond, so I doubt very seriously that it will go away. Be that as it may, let's have an absolute end to the regular college football season with the Thanksgiving Day holiday being the end. When the rankings come down, take the top eight teams in the rankings and seed them accordingly with four of the top four of the top seven bowl games, leaving all the other bowls for the also rans. The title game will be played on New Years Day prime time. The semis would be played the day after Christmas, two games, and the beginning of the playoffs would be played the week before, four games.

I know that the bowl society and the college foundations will be vehemently against this because why? The money! But there will always be those other bowls.

Any suggestions? Any comments?

 

[SlowNeasy]

Run them like the NCAA basketball tournament. A lot more games to make $$$ on. Why limit bowl games to all that $$$?

 

[buckaroo]

If you did that, you would have nothing but a tournament for the entire season. Ever check as to how many colleges play top level football? And who would you eleminate all but 64 teams? Even down to 32 or 16. College basketball games can be played on one or two days rest. Not so with football. The Division II teams have a tournament and that could be a template, but I am not sure how they bracket that tournament.

 

[Benevolent One]

I like a system where they play the four major bowls on New Years Day as the start of an 8 team tourney. They would play a semifinal the next week and a real Championship game the following week. Imagine how much money the NCAA could make from that. Yes the Bowls would suffer a little bit, but everyone else would benefit a lot more.