My Revised College Football Playoff Proposal

THE NEW PLAYOFF PROPOSAL...

ALREADY BCS GAMES

BCS National Championship Game: $17 million payout

Sugar Bowl: $17 million payout

Orange Bowl: $17 million payout

Rose Bowl: $17 million payout

Fiesta Bowl: $17 million payout

ADD TWO EXTRA "BCS GAMES" TO THE ABOVE

The two highest "non-BCS" payouts are the Cotton Bowl and the Capital One Bowl. So offer them first bump up to BCS status...if they don't want to pony up the $17 million dollar payout...offer the next bowl down the list. But, for argument, say they accept.

Cotton Bowl: $17 million payout

Capital One Bowl: $17 million payout

Now that you have seven "BCS Games" and a sponsor established...

Go to all of these bowl games and accept bids from these sponsors for who would bid, say, $20 million for the semifinal games, with the championship game to get $25 million.

Also since there is more money involved for advancing, lower that $17 million dollar payout on those divisional rounds down to $15 million apiece.

Decide which bowls are willing to pay an increase for semifinal games, and grant them those games.

Divisional final games will alternate between the bowl games each year (1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5).

BCS system is still used to determine the strength of the conference and seeding. For instance, BCS concludes following the season that 1) SEC, 2) Big 12, 3) Big Ten, 4) ACC, 5) Pac-10, 6) Big East, 7) Mountain West, 8) WAC.

Neutral site only for the national championship game played at randomly selected sites all over the country.

Home-field advantage goes to top-rated seeds.

Realign the conferences to 10 teams per conference *THIS IS THE STICKY PART OF THIS ENTIRE PROPOSAL* (nine conference games, three out-of-conference games. No scheduling of I-AA opponents. Round-robin competition through the conference schedules...Conference champions from each of the eight playoff conferences get the eight bids into the playoffs for the national championship, with seeding determined by the BCS strength of conference.

Here is the overview including new payouts...for example...

Lets say following the season this is how the conference strength is determined by the BCS: 1) SEC, 2) Big 12, 3) Big Ten, 4) ACC, 5) Pac-10, 6) Big East, 7) Mountain West, 8) WAC.

So here would be the model for my proposal...

Divisional Finals

Cotton Bowl (Gainesville, Florida)

(No. 1-ranked SEC Champ) Florida vs. (No. 8-ranked WAC Champ) Boise State

Capital One Bowl (Austin, Texas)

(No. 2-ranked Big 12 Champ) Texas vs. (No. 7-ranked MWC Champ) Utah

Fiesta Bowl (Columbus, Ohio)

(No. 3-ranked Big Ten Champ) Ohio State vs. (No. 6-ranked Big East Champ) Cincinnati

Orange Bowl (Blacksburg, Virginia)

(No. 4-ranked ACC Champ) Virginia Tech vs. (No. 5-ranked Pac-10 Champ) USC

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