Everyday, someone somewhere proposes a new approach to a playoff system while trying to keep the bowl system intact. However, the recent outcry for a playoff system in college football has fallen on deaf ears. I, for one, am perfectly happy with college football having no playoffs. I enjoy the regular season and the bowl season with one small exception.
It seems that in recent times, the focus on a team's conference membership has escalated to absurd levels. A touch of pride in one's conference affiliation is not only reasonable, but a part of college football tradition.
Conference play also makes up the majority of one's schedule and therefore has a huge influence on a team's strength of schedule. However, college football fans and some sports journalists have turned this aspect of the game into an obsession. Too much consideration is given to conference affiliation while individual level of play is marginalized, in my opinion.
I am proposing an alternative to the regular season scheduling method as follows:
A fifteen game regular season with
- Five in-conference games
- Five games to be scheduled by the individual teams,
allowing for more conference games, rivalries, etc. - Five games to be randomly scheduled by a computer,
but weighted to favor games between teams that finished near each other in the previous season's final rankings.
These games could be played in any order as far as I'm concerned.
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