Notre Dame joins the Big Ten....
Big Ten East: Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Indiana, Northwestern
Big Ten West: Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Purdue
Lucas Oil Field host the annual Big Ten Championship Game
Utah and Boise State join the Pac Ten...
Pac 10 North: Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Boise State, Utah
Pac 10 South: USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Stanford.
Play Pac 10 Championship in Glendale
Play all 6 Conference Championship Games on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. Pac 10 and Big 12 can play Friday evening.... 5:00 est and 9:00 est. Play the other 4 games on Saturday.
Now that the 6 BCS conferences all have 12 teams and a conference championship game, we can finally have an 8 team playoff. The 8 teams will be the 6 conference champions and 2 "At Large" bids from non-bcs conferences. The tournament seeding and "At Large" bids can be determined by either the current bcs system or a Selection Committee similar to NCAA Basketball.
I say play the first round playoff games (4 games) on the first Saturday of December at the higher seeds home stadium.
Play the semi finals on New Year's Day to keep the tradition alive.
Play the National Championship Game one week later.
Advantages:
The National Championship will be determined on the field every single year. I am sick of the media telling me which teams and which conferences are good and which ones aren't. It's ridiculous.
Teams will not be "scared" to schedule tough non-conference games due to fear of a lost because they can still make the playoffs by winning their conference. Actually, under the new system, teams will be more likely to schedule tough non-conference games so that the BCS or Selection Committee will give them a high seed (provided they won their conference) and thus grant them a home playoff game. In short, the regular season will be as intriguing as ever.
Every conference having a Conference Championship would be awesome.
Every team has chance to win the National Championship. Currently, a non-bcs team has no chance at making the National Championship game. The "At Large" bids will give teams like BYU, TCU, Fresno State, Ball State, etc a chance to make a "Cinderella" run.
The prestigious bowls can still exist and be used as semi final games.
The crappy bowls can still exist for degenerate gamblers.
Disadvantages:
The four teams who lose the first round playoff games would be shut out of bowls.
Costello, invite Lee Corso to join this blog.
Thanks.
2 comments:
Sas,
I like the idea. And another thing that could help would be that the four losers of the first round play in 2 2nd tier bowls (i.e. the four losers play each other in the Capital One Bowl ($4.25 million payout) and the Cotton Bowl ($3)....
check out this hilarious bcs satire!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTGTR0zdMt8
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