Computers are lifeless, cold hard calculators that could care less about last year’s rankings or if you have a storied program or that your cheerleaders are the hottest in the country.
The rankings are strictly based on a team’s overall record and strength of schedule. The need to run up the score on opponents is no longer necessary since margin of victory has been eliminated. No such thing as "style points" anymore. A win is a win is a win.
4.) THE PLAYOFFS: Under the designed season above, at the end of 12 games there could only be a maximum of six undefeated teams. Therefore, the playoff is very simple…the top 6 teams are in. PERIOD. An undefeated team will never be left out of the playoffs.
Also winning your conference doesn’t mean squat unless you are in the top six at the end of the season. The conferences are only in place for the sole purpose of keeping teams from traveling all across the country six times a year to play games. These are student athletes, not professionals.
Under this system, the top two teams will receive a bye week while teams three, four, five and six play in quarterfinal games. The quarterfinal and semifinal games are played using home-field advantage.
**Example Playoff**
--Quarterfinals--
No. 6 Pittsburgh @ No. 3 Florida
No. 5 Texas @ No. 4 USC
--Semifinals--
No. 3 Florida @ No. 2 Michigan
No. 4 USC @ No. 1 Miami
The playoffs start the first week after the season with the Championship game being played on New Year’s Day at one of the current BCS Bowls (Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange). The rest of the bowls will be divided amongst D-IA and D-IB schools.
Schools will still need to have a winning record in order to go to a bowl game. Oh, and one more thing. Since every team in a conference plays each other, NO CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES! Conference champions are decided by wins and losses and head-to-head match-ups.
5.) THE PLAYOFF COMMITTEE: Remember that comment above about not freaking out if your school didn’t make it to D-IA? Well, here is the reason why. At the end of each season, a playoff committee comprised of specific, qualified individuals (Not School Presidents or Athletic Directors) will meet to discuss the performances of every single team in both D-IA and D-IB.
Every fourth year, the committee will vote on either promoting or demoting schools to either division. If, for example, BYU has been underachieving in D-IA while Washington has won two National Titles in D-IB, the committee may vote to promote Washington and demote BYU. A team must be getting promoted in order for there to be a demotion. The 60-team division must be kept.
You may be asking yourself, "What happens if Washington is the only team that gets promoted and Clemson is the only team that is promoted? Does Washington join the ACC?" I’ve come up with two possible solutions to this problem. Pick your poison.
A.The conferences get reorganized in order to keep the balance. In the case of Washington and Clemson, BYU would be moved to the Big 12, Texas A&M would move to the SEC and South Carolina would join the ACC.
B. You get rid of the conferences completely and each team’s schedule is randomly selected at the end of each season. In this case, an east coast team may travel to the west coast 6 times in one season to play games.
If given a choice, I would pick option A.
6.) RINSE AND REPEAT: One week after the bowl season ends, the teams receive next year’s schedule and begin the process all over again. On the years in which the committee promotes or demotes teams, the schedules will come out a week after voting.
There you have it folks. My very own playoff system. Again, you may be asking, "Why did you draw up a playoff system even though you don’t believe in it? For one…my playoff system will never become a reality. It is just too far-fetched and and would cause too many problems to ever be seriously considered.
Open to comments and suggestions.
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