But I don’t understand the reluctance to have a 16 game playoff. It is the “end”. Eight and 12 game playoffs leave out worthy contenders and more games equal more dollars. Eight teams is simply too few and the 12 team format adds aother wek so why not have 16 teams.

You reaally can please ‘everyone” with 11 D-1 conference champs and 5-At Large bids based on criteria (i.e. BCS rankings). It’s simple, no conference champs are left out and worthy #2′s and 3′s can be included.

Conference consolidation will likely eliminate one or more conferences and the 12 game format could be acceptable but would have few at-large bids. Any team that loses in the first two rounds would still be bowl eligible.

Nobody is penalized for playing a tough non-conference schedule if they win their conference. Cinderella teams enhance March Madness and would do the same for the NCAA D-1 Playoffs. Teams ranked in the top 16 that don’t get in, because a lower or non-ranked conference champ is in, can’t complain because they simply didn’t get it done on the field in conference.

The 10 BCS teams are guaranteed a total of $180 million for 2009/2010 season. Including all conferences and the 16 team format would likely increase the entire payout so that the $288 million needed to ensure BCS conferences don’t lose a dime. Ensuring non-BCS conferences also get big payoffs will increase the quality of college football for ALL. What’s better than that?

I’ll be back next Monday with an update to my bracket.

2) Assuming anything from a 10-16 team playoff. Play round 1 at the sites of the upper seeded teams. If it isn’t 16 teams, there will be byes involved. Ideally, these games could be played the first week of December when the conf. championship games are currently held.

Then, the remaining 8 could play the 2nd weekend of December.

3) All of the other teams including the teams that lost in the 1st 2 rounds could be bowl eligble. The top 4 teams could play in 2 big bowls on New Years and have the championship game a week later.

I’ve got 3 questions:
1. What would it take to make a playoff system a reality starting in 2014 (or sooner)?

2. When would these games be played? The 1st week of December followed by the 1st 2 weekends of the new year? Ideally a team would have more than 1 week to prepare rounds 2 and 3.

3. If this did play out, would we just keep the remaining 30 bowls? I’m guessing they would stay the same. They are enjoyable for the players and entertaining to the local fans now and they would remain so in the new format.
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As of now, the teams would be FLA TEX CINCY GA TECH OREGON OHIO ST BOISE TCU BAMA PITT LSU and OK. ST.

No one gets ripped off. I keep coming back to this thought: 8 teams is not enough but 16 is too many.

Respectfully,

The Pittsburgh Kid