Dan Wetzel 16-team playoff plan

[QuaoarsKing]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-playoff120610<div>
</div><div>Year after year, this turns out to be the fairest, most logical, and most exciting. (And would generate the most money.)</div><div>
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</div><div>It would definitely be better to stack the seeds to avoid rematches early...put Arkansas up to 7 and drop Oklahoma to 9 maybe. However, this is the system that needs to be adopted, I say. Fair to everyone. Doesn't devalue regular season at all (since homefield advantage in the first 3 rounds is HUGE.)</div><div>
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</div><div>Also, if you want a quick, interesting read, check out his book, "Death to the BCS"</div>

 

[seshomoru]

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[patdog]

Patdog's 8-team playoff plan:

Dec. 15:
Unranked(8 seed) UConn (Big East Champion) at #1 Auburn (SEC champion)
#13 (7 seed) VA Tech (ACC champion) at #2 Oregon (PAC 10 champion)
#7 (6 seed) Oklahoma (Big 12 champion) at #3 TCU (highest ranked non-BCS conference champion)
#5 Wisconsin (Big 10 champion) at #4 Stanford (at large)

Jan 1 (BCS bowls):
UConn-Auburn vs. Wisconsin-Stanford
VA Tech-Oregon vs Oklahoma-TCU

Jan 15:
Title game at site to be bid for like the Super Bowl is bid.

The only team with even a semi-legitimate beef would be 11-1 Ohio St., which would get left out. No 2-loss team has any reason to ***** about being left out. You lose 2 games, you better win your conference. The seed of the at-large team would be adjusted either up or down 1 to avoid a matchup with a team from their conference if needed (not needed this year).</p>

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

The games matter down the stretch and for the most part, a team with one or no losses will end up winning it all. If Auburn loses a playoff game against any of those teams, then they don't deserve to be champions.

 

[Incognegro]

Just to make things more attractive for viewers however, I would probably incorporate a rule that non-AQ conferences, if they have a team that won their conference and is ranked then that team goes to the tournament. In this case, Auburn, Oregon, TCU, Wisconsin (for being higher ranked in the BCS), Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Nevada, UCF, and UConn would all have made it to the playoffs from winning their conferences. This would leave 7 slots open and this in turn would fill up with Stanford, Ohio State, Arkansas, Michigan State, LSU, Boise, and Missouri. Other teams on the outside that had a shot of making it but just didn't deliver would be Bama, OSU, and Nebraska. As far as matching up the seeds, I think it would just be fair to match them by ranking.

 

[sleepy dawg]

There are probably 12 SEC teams better than Florida International... I think any kind of a playoff you come up with will diminish the SEC. The brutal grind of the SEC will no longer be important. With a large playoff scenario (16 teams), you can be a total **** hole of a team and get lucky and win the national championship, while many many teams who are really better than you, and proved it, will have no shot at the title.

 

[alabamadog]

each bcs conference gets one team, unless their champion isn't in the top 25. In that case, it goes to the highest ranked remaining team. The first round would be TCU vs. Virginia Tech and Wisconsin vs Oklahoma, with Auburn and Oregon getting byes. The only problem I would have with this is it lets a team like Virginia Tech get away with losing to James Madison, but it might encourage the powerhouses to play each other more in out of conferences games.

 

[tupelopixdotcom]

But this would be fair and honest, and we all know FAIR and HONEST have no place in the NCAA.

 

[Uncle Leo]

All conferences champions would qualify:

Just like the wildly popular and profitable NCAA men’s basketball tournament, champions of all 11 conferences earn an automatic bid to the playoff.

Yes, all 11, even the lousy conferences.

But maybe I misunderstood your post.

 

[seshomoru]

With a 16 game playoff, there were 12 games the last week of the season that would have had national championship implications, as in who would make the playoffs or not. Think NCAA Basketball conference tourney week but with football. It would have been awesome. Instead, we were left with two meaningful games, cheering for two upsets so the BCS would get what it deserved. A Wisconsin vs TCU title game.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Look, if the NFC West winner can get into the playoffs at what may possibly be a losing record this year and have a shot at winning the Super Bowl, I have no problem with FIU having a crack at Auburn for their chance at a national title.

 

[Incognegro]

I didn't write what I meant as clearly as I should have. What I meant to say is that I actually agree with Dan 100% on this one. The fact I agree with him is also why I realize that this will never take off. I was saying to incorporate a non-AQ ruling like the BCS currently has which would basically make those conferences work to get into the playoffs. I was rather relaxed with mine by saying that as long as they crack the top 25 then they can go, which means that UCF, TCU and Nevada all would make it in. Also, by some virtue Boise would make it in as well.<div>
</div><div>I firmly believe that a playoff system doesn't have to be any less than 16 teams, and the same exact system that Dan has spoken about, I've been preaching it too. The one that I recently tweaked is one that I feel would probably generate a little bit more money and the higher ups (if they decide to suck it up and accept it) would probably be a little bit more lenient. Also, bowl games could be strewn about before each of these games and act more like precursors to the main events. The last batch of bowl games would pretty much be the teams that barely missed the playoffs, and in this case it would be Bama, OSU, aTm, and South Carolina. There is a lot of money to be had in this system... it just depends on how it's structured.</div>

 

[QuaoarsKing]

The Sun Belt and MAC might ought to both be demoted to FCS conferences, and then Boise and Missouri would get a spot in the playoffs. I wouldn't really care if that happened.<div>
</div><div>However, allowing a terrible team like FIU in lets Auburn essentially have a bye in the 1st round (as a reward for a perfect regular season with a tough schedule), but there's still technically a game raking in all kinds of money.</div><div>
</div><div>Plus, after a few years of this, the Sun Belt would get better players thanks to all the money and the promise to recruits of a chance at playoff glory.</div>