Comments on: What would a college football playoff look like this year?

By: Anthony Stalter

Anthony Stalter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:38:01 +0000

I would agree with Gerardo that you don’t want to encourage teams to schedule cupcake opponents just so they don’t suffer three losses. But the rest of the format is pretty sound.

Unfortunately, no matter what you’re going to have people bitching that certainly teams didn’t make the cut, but this system appears fair and logical.

I don’t understand why BCS supporters don’t grasp the concept that they’ll make more money with a playoff than with the current system they have in place. People would travel to go see their teams in a playoff game, just as they do to bowl games and you could still have the PapJohns.com Who Gives a Shit Bowl for teams that don’t make the BCS playoff.

I just don’t get it.

By: John Paulsen

John Paulsen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:33:40 +0000

The automatic bids are to sell the playoff to the power conferences. The general consensus is that they won’t buy in unless there are automatic bids.

I like your idea of cutting it off at a certain point in the BCS, so that teams don’t avoid playing a tough non-conference schedule.

By: Gerardo Orlando

Gerardo Orlando — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:06:10 +0000

I like the idea of automatic bids, but that one might be hard to sell. If you do have that system, having a disqualifier makes a ton of sense. Tha said, I would not do it by losses – you don’t want to discourage teams from playing tough non-conference games. Maybe they could lose their spot if they are not in the top 15 in the BCS.

I love the idea of the first round being played at home stadiums. As a Big Ten fan, I’d love to see the SEC and Pac-10 teas actually have to play up north for a change in cold weather.

Having two bowls host the semifinal games makes sense as well.

Finally, I would just go to the top 8 teams in the BCS. That would help sell this to all the schools.