BCS or Playoff - Adams vs Cotcher (4-11)

[Matt Cotcher]

16 is too many, IMO. I'm not convinced that increasing it to 8 is even worthwhile. The bigger the pool of teams, the greater the risk is that a non-deserving team wins the championship (a la March Madness).

Ask yourself this....When is the last time you thought the #7-ranked team in the country was the best team in America?

 

[drgilbert]

Rankings don't always matter. A few years ago the Giants barely made the playoffs. They went on an incredible run and won the Super Bowl. Nobody questioned if they deserved it. If you are one of the 8 teams and can't get up for a win or go home scenario then maybe you shouldn't be there.

 

[armadillo slim]

16 is too many, IMO. I'm not convinced that increasing it to 8 is even worthwhile. The bigger the pool of teams, the greater the risk is that a non-deserving team wins the championship (a la March Madness).

Ask yourself this....When is the last time you thought the #7-ranked team in the country was the best team in America?

i agree with this.  personally, i think four is the right number, but eight should be the maximum.  unfortunately, given the way things always seem to expand, i'll bet eight is where they end up.

 

[HornNdriftwood]

I think this segment would be better if Sean and Matt would join in the discussion instead of sketching out their position and disappearing.

Just a thought.

A playoff was the direction the sport was headed for years. I don't think there's any doubt that's what a majority of fans want. Four teams is not much better than a "plus 1" added to the BCS model. I think 8 is the right number but as someone mentioned there is already concerns for fan support/travel with the 4 team model.

Ideal would be 8 10-team conferences with only conference champions in the mix. Get rid of polls and all subjective input. Instead of conference championship games, that weekend would be the quater-finals. Then you have a 4 team playoff in early January.

 

[Coleman Feeley]

I think this segment would be better if Sean and Matt would join in the discussion instead of sketching out their position and disappearing.

Just a thought.

A playoff was the direction the sport was headed for years. I don't think there's any doubt that's what a majority of fans want. Four teams is not much better than a "plus 1" added to the BCS model. I think 8 is the right number but as someone mentioned there is already concerns for fan support/travel with the 4 team model.

Ideal would be 8 10-team conferences with only conference champions in the mix. Get rid of polls and all subjective input. Instead of conference championship games, that weekend would be the quater-finals. Then you have a 4 team playoff in early January.

BINGO.... it's hard to have a sport with the popularity that CFB has, and then think that a playoff system wouldn't be most fair.... BUT like the song says

"MONEY... share it fairly but don't take a slice of MY pie."

 

[BigPhil76]

The 6-6 bowl game is part of this new America where everybody gets a participants ribbon. It needs to go away. Football is war. There are losers every week. Losers stay home and think about next year. Do away with LOSER BOWLS and expand the playoffs.

 

[Capn Hook]

16 is too many, IMO. I'm not convinced that increasing it to 8 is even worthwhile. The bigger the pool of teams, the greater the risk is that a non-deserving team wins the championship (a la March Madness).

Ask yourself this....When is the last time you thought the #7-ranked team in the country was the best team in America?

When was the last time UT was rated #7?

J/K.

There is no perfect system, and there never will be.  But having said that I would like to see an eight team playoff (given that attendance would support it).  The logistics of picking the eight teams is vague in my mind, but I can come up with several scenarios (none of which involve letting ND have a a cakewalk).

Even if it went to 16 teams there would always be schools who cry foul, but that's just life.

 

[Lukus Alderman]

Super-conferences are the answer.

Turn college football into a minor-league NFL and have an 8-16 team playoffs that include bye weeks, etc.

Shorten the college football regular season. This can work!

 

[Capn Hook]

Super-conferences are the answer.

Turn college football into a minor-league NFL and have an 8-16 team playoffs that include bye weeks, etc.

Shorten the college football regular season. This can work!

You are probably correct on the first part, but I don't see any way in hell colleges will agree to shorten the season, too much money lost by the non-playoff schools.

 

[Lukus Alderman]

You are probably correct on the first part, but I don't see any way in hell colleges will agree to shorten the season, too much money lost by the non-playoff schools.

Possible, but there could be a second tier playoff, much like the NIT.