To start things off, I am an Ohio State fan, and probably have less to gain from a Football Tournament than anyone.

However, after watching the insane upsets week after week in the 2007 season, I think it is difficult to justify the BCS format. By definition, with so many "upsets", doesn't this mean that maybe the rankings were wrong?

I personally didn't want Ohio State to get to the title game, as I felt that they would be better prepared for this year by playing in another Bowl Game, and not having to deal with all the criticism that they are now receiving.

As such, I am presenting my own format for a possible playoff format. It is somewhat controversial, and I am sure that plenty of people will take issue with some aspects of it; however, I also feel that it provides the best measure for determining a champion, and that it is also a giant step forward for the sport.

The entire concept is based around the conferences and their highest ranked teams representing that conference in the NCAA tournament. As such, we would need to streamline the conferences to fit this idea. With 120 Division One Schools, we would be able to have 10 Conferences with 12 teams each. Currently, College Football has the following conference alignments:

ACC: 12 Teams

Big 12: 12 Teams

Big 10: 11 Teams

Big East: 8 Teams

Conference USA: 12 Teams

MAC: 13 Teams

Mountain West: 9 Teams 

PAC 10: 10 Teams

SEC: 12 Teams

Sun Belt: 8 Teams

WAC: 9 Teams

Independents: 4 Teams

Under my proposition, the schools that are independent (Notre Dame, Navy, Army, Western Kentucky) and the Sun Belt Schools (Arkansas State, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Monroe, Middle Tennessee, North Texas and Troy) would be redistributed among the Big 10, Big East, Mountain West, PAC 10 and WAC, so that we will now be left with 10 conferences of 12 Schools.

I understand that on a strictly geographical level, this redistribution would be difficult; however I’m sure that other conferences could juggle Schools to some extent to achieve the desired end result.

As a result of the conference realignment, we are now in a position to properly seed the NCAA football Tournaments. The Premier Tournament "The Tournament of Champions" will consist of 16 Teams, the top two teams from each of the "BCS conferences" (ACC, Big 12, Big 10, Big East, Pac 10 and SEC) and the Conference Champion from the remaining four conferences. (C-USA, MAC, WAC, Mountain West).

The Teams will need to be seeded, and I recommend this be done by conference affiliation, so that teams from the same conference will not play each other until the Final.

Under this scenario, the 2007 tournament could have looked something like this, with the winner of each match up in brackets:

Round One

LSU vs Central Michigan (LSU)

Oklahoma vs UCF (Oklahoma)

USC vs Connecticut (USC)

Virginia Tech vs Illinois (Virginia Tech)

BYU vs Tennessee (Tennessee)

Hawaii vs Arizona State (Hawaii)

Ohio State vs Kansas (Ohio State)

West Virginia vs Boston College (West Virginia)

Round Two

LSU vs Virginia Tech (LSU) [Quarter Finals]

Oklahoma vs USC (USC) [Quarter Finals]

Ohio State vs Hawaii (Ohio State) [Quarter Finals]

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