Task Force to Study D-I Playoff Proposal

[EPJr]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOzO ... gD8U60R300

I have been of the mind to do this like for years.
I would add the Cotton Bowl into the mix.
That way the BCS could rotate who would have the semi-final games (day/night double header at the same site) It be a football version of the final four.

If they had the system this year:
#1 Ohio State Vs. #8 Kansas In the Rose Bowl
#2 LSU Vs. #7 USC in the Sugar Bowl
#3 VA Tech Vs. #6 Missouri in the Orange Bowl
#4 Oklahoma Vs. #5 Georgia in the Cotton Bowl

Semi-Finals in the Fiesta Bowl
1:00pm Cotton Bowl winner Vs. Rose Bowl Winner
8:00pm Sugar Bowl winner Vs. Orange Bowl Winner

[SuperHornet]

That's still not enough teams to make it fair. I'd prefer 64, but it's gotta be at LEAST 16.

[BigApp]

64 teams? you want a 4 game regular season or something??

[SuperHornet]

Nah. Just start it early and eliminate the bye.

Actually, though, using last year's calendar as an example, one could start the season 9/1 with a 12-game/no bye or 11-game/1 bye season, or on 9/8 for an 11-game/no bye season. Assuming the abolition of conference title games (or replacing the bye with a conference title game), playoffs could start Thanksgiving weekend with a title game (including some extra days of hype) on 1/1.

This is doable. Will anyone go for it? Probably not.

[MrTitleist]

64 teams, are you out of your mind?? That's more than half of 1-A, which means that you're inviting 6-6 teams or below to a playoff. Insanity! 6-6 teams don't belong in a bowl game, playoffs, or anywhere. They belong in mediocrity. I think 16 teams is perfect.. the worst you get is 8-3 and an occasional 7-4 team.. pretty high quality of play in those games.

[SuperHornet]

You make a fairly decent point, Mr. T. However, it would have to be AT LEAST 16 to have some semblance of avoiding the controversy of who's getting shafted. Having the "snub" controversy strictly among the 8-3s and 7-4s of the world would be much better than seeing an undefeated or one-loss team get the boot.

BTW, did you hear about the D-III proposals? Apparently, there are now so many teams in D-III with more wanting to go in that they are not easily managed. Competing proposals would split D-III into III-A and III-AA or completely shove the lower-competing members into a completely new D-IV. How does that sound to you? Or would it be better to force those non-players into NAIA? Not sure that would work since the general consensus that I've seen puts NAIA roughly equivalent to D-II, or at least II.V.

[BigApp]

8 teams would work fine IF the first poll didn't come out until 10/1. That way teams that started the season "off the radar", if you will, would have a little bit better chance of being involved.

[AZGrizFan]

That's still not enough teams to make it fair. I'd prefer 64, but it's gotta be at LEAST 16.

8 teams is fine. If they're arguing about who the 9th best team is, I'm fine with that. When they're arguing about who's #2, then Houston, we have a problem.

[Fresno St. Alum]

shit I'd be happy with 8 it's better than the 2 we have now. If it was 16 then i figure the WAC, MWC, C-USA get auto-bids that's why I'd like 16.

[AZGrizFan]

shit I'd be happy with 8 it's better than the 2 we have now. If it was 16 then i figure the WAC, MWC, C-USA get auto-bids that's why I'd like 16.

Seriously? That'd be like inviting the baseball AAA champs of the various leagues into the playoffs.....WAC MAYBE, but MWC and C-USA, I can't see happening in my lifetime....and even Boise State had lightening strike last year....they didn't seriously belong in any NC discussion.

[dbackjon]

shit I'd be happy with 8 it's better than the 2 we have now. If it was 16 then i figure the WAC, MWC, C-USA get auto-bids that's why I'd like 16.

Seriously? That'd be like inviting the baseball AAA champs of the various leagues into the playoffs.....WAC MAYBE, but MWC and C-USA, I can't see happening in my lifetime....and even Boise State had lightening strike last year....they didn't seriously belong in any NC discussion.

Same could be said in basketball, most years. Mountain West is actually better overall than the WAC - remember Utah of a couple of years ago?

And honestly, this year, the difference between the MWC and the Big Least wasn't that great - not so much that you could automatically say the MWC, WAC are "AAA".