Saturday, December 22, 2007

BCS Playoff System - Oops! Part 2

I was kindly reminded that I left out the Mountain West Conference from my playoff system bracket. Thanks for your input, it was a mistake. So lets revisit the subject with revisions and explanations.

I like the idea of the person who commented on my first version that the second round games be more regionally oriented so that fans could attend more easily. However by doing that you will always have the same teams playing each other like you get in pro sports. A better way to do it would be like the NCAA basketball tournament where after you have conference champions you seed them into the matchups based upon rankings.

The matter of the conferences that do not have 12 teams for a conference championship game would end up being the decision of the conference. They could just take the champion from the regular season and put them into the second round. Or they could split there current conference into two divisions based upon their current teams. Teams would still play the full conference schedule so no rivalrys would be affected.

Out of these 11 D1 Conference champions, you seed the first 7 teams based upon rankings of the 11 conference champions. The final spot in the round of 8 teams will be the winner of a mini playoff among the other 4 unseeded conference champions.

So you end up with something like this.

Round 1

Game 1
BYU (Mountain West Champion)
Florida Atlantic (Sun Belt Champion)

Game 2
Uni. Central Florida (Conference USA Champion)
Central Michigan (Mid-America Champion)

Round 2

Game 1 winner vs Game 2 winner

Round 3

Game 1 (ORANGE BOWL)
#1 Seed (example for 2007 Ohio State, BIG 10 CHAMPION)
#8 Seed (winner of round 2 game1)

Game 2 (SUGAR BOWL)
#3 Seed (2007 Virginia Tech, ACC Champion)
#6 Seed (2007 West Virginia, Big East Champion)

Game 3 (ROSE BOWL)
#5 Seed (2007 USC, PAC10 Champion)
#4 Seed (Oklahoma, Big12 Champion)

Game 4 (FIESTA BOWL)
#7 Seed (2007 - Hawaii, WAC Champion)
#2 Seed (2007 - LSU, SEC CHAMPION)

ROUND 4

ORANGE BOWL CHAMPION VS SUGAR BOWL CHAMPION

ROSE BOWL CHAMPION VS FIESTA BOWL CHAMPION

ROUND 5

BCS CHAMPION GAME

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