Endless Purple
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Apparently a 4 team playoff is in the future. I was curious how most here would like to see the teams chosen and set up.
As much as I want it like I think 90% of fans do, semis on campus won't happen as long as the BCS committee is in bed with bowl execs.
...and as long as the SEC won't play December games north of the Mason-Dixon line.
If you only have 4 teams, they should be conference champs. Otherwise, why have conferences at all?
Looks like the hosting plan getting the most traction involves having the top 2 teams 'hosting' a semifinal at whatever bowl game their conference is tied to (SEC in the top 2 will play a semi at the Sugar, etc). And if both Pac 12 and Big 10 teams make the cut they'd automatically meet in the Rose Bowl. And that in order to keep 10 teams in the BCS mix a 5th bowl would be added to the rotation.
Wonder if someday that could work the big 12 hosting at cowboys stadium instead of Tempe.
Wonder if someday that could work the big 12 hosting at cowboys stadium instead of Tempe.
The conference champ thing may seem lie a good idea, but last season you could realistically had
UCLA upset Oregon
OU upset OSU
Wisc upset Mich St
UGA upset LSU
USM upset Houston
Clemson Upset VT
Your Conf Champ 4 team playoff would have been
OU / Clemson / Wisc / and UGA.
Oklahoma would have been the 1 seed and ranked about #6. Meanwhile the top 4 or 5 teams would be playing in a bowl and competing for the AP national title. You have to just go with the top 4 teams.
Which conference champs though?
Realistically that would never happen. You're confusing mere possibility with actual realistic probability.
That is a realistic possibility in the same sense that me beating LeBron James one on one is a realistic possibility or me hitting blackjack 3,000 times in a row & bankrupting the casino is a realistic possibility.
A more realistic & problematic possibility is a pure popularity contest deciding who is 1-4 largely devoid of objective on-field results.
If you take the four highest ranked conference champions you get a de facto eight team playoff. You also make the conference championship very meaningful and a valuable TV commodity. If you don't, imagine the following scenario:
Last week of regular season unbeaten #1 Ohio State plays unbeaten #2 Michigan. Big Blue wins by a field goal. The following week they play in their conference title game and the Buckeyes win by a field goal. They finish among only four one-loss teams and are ranked #2 and #4 respectively. Both make the four-team playoff and win their semi-finals. The second Monday in January they play for the third time in six weeks.
Not really. The only shock of that group would have been UCLA. OU was certainly capable of beating OSU, and UGA was capable of beating LSU. The other 3 upsets happened.