College Football Playoff

[H-Town Husker]

There are too many bowls too.  If you are .500 you shouldn't be in a bowl, you should have a winning season. 

[FreightTrain]

About time, but only four teams................they can do better than that.

Bowl games are a joke anymore.  It use to mean something to have a consecutive bowl string going.  Lately not so much.  When you have teams with 50% wins and loses or even worse going to bowls it tarnishes the concept completely. 

Like said it would be a spectacle to see the conference winners go head to head using the major bowls as the vehicle to eliminating the also-rans.  The big four bowls could rotate as a national title game.  Eight teams would work and they could shorten the regular season back to ten or eleven games to fit it all in if they chose to.

[Cdog923]

I've always wanted a 12 team playoff. Give the top 4 teams in the BCS a week off, and let the next 8 go at it in the first week. Reseed as you go. Semifinals happen at BCS Bowl sites. National Title game a week after.

[Roscoe Pound]

IDK about the locations.  You are talking about fans for the NC teams, paying for a "bowl" ticket, then a NC tickets.  It would be pricey for the consumer.  I think you have seeds and top seed gets homefield until the NC.  JMO. 

That's a great point.  Have the first two rounds at the highest seeds' home stadiums and then the championships at the bowl sites.  That would work much better for the fans. I guess the other option would be to play round one at the home sites and then play the final two rounds at the bowl site.  Make it a week long event.  Weekend #1 the final four teams play two games at the Bowl site, then the following week the final two teams play in the championship.  Fans could make a full week vacation out of it.  It'd be a helluva lot of fun!  

The key to this is to not let the system be driven by existing bowl games.  Think the NFL model ... The higher seed plays a home game, begining with all conference championship games. This removes much of the travel concern. The championship game can then finally be played in one of the bowls similar to how they rotate now with the BCS.

This should be thought of like the NCAA basketball tourney and the NIT.  The football playoff is separate from the lower tier bowls which can still be played outside of the playoff system.

The big issue in this is not the fact of the playoff system itself. The issue here is who holds the knife when the cake is cut.

[SUHnami]

The plus 1 would be better than the current system.  I think they should make a rule that you HAVE  to win your conference to be one of the 4 teams selected. 

I respectfully disagree with the latter statement.  This would be a mini 4 team playoff.  Use the BCS standings and take the Top 4 teams regardless of whether they have won their conference or not.  I'm tired of the same song and dance of you have to win your conference before you can play for the national title bunk.  Otherwise you might get the 15th ranked team in the country with 3 losses playing in a 4 team playoff they don't deserve to be in.  You either take the Top 4 teams or you leave the current system the way it is.  If the Top 4 teams happen to have all won their conference so be it.  That makes it better.  If not so what?  It's a tournament.  All tournaments have teams who haven't won their conference playing in them and sometimes playing for the National Title.