Saturday, December 31, 2011

It's Time For A Playoff

I have enjoyed the last couple of days the blogging from Whit Barnes the former Gryphon who is a red shirt sophomore for Wake Forest football on The Gryphon Grapevine blog of Charles Alston.  Whit has passed along the life of a player at a bowl game.Wake Forest lost last night in the Music City Bowl in Nashville 23-17.

The Music City Bowl brought together two teams that were 6-6 this season.  Whatever happened to bowl games were a reward for a good season.  After losing the game Wake Forest now has a losing season and to me they and Mississippi State should have been home watching others play.


One of the big obstacles of a playoff is a 12 game regular season.  I say go back to a ten game schedule.  Have a 16 team playoff.  All the conference champions and let a committee decide just like basketball who are the best of the rest to make 16 and no conference can have more than two.  If you start the season on Labor Day Weekend you are through by the end of October.   Each conference that has a Championship game  can play week 11 and then start the playoffs.

The first weekend of the playoffs have only four games and the second week the other four games.  The third weekend the two winners from week one and the fourth the two winners from week two.  The fifth weekend play only one game and again the sixth weekend only one then the two left play on New Years day.

No one has had to play two weeks in a row and since it takes 15 games to determine a champion let the top 15 Bowls be the host of all the playoff games.  That still leaves the other 24 bowls to have the other bowl qualifiers to say they had a bowl game. The top bowls could do just as they do now and host the championship game by rotating  the championship game.

Then of course if you cut back to only ten regular season games each conference should have an eight games conference schedule and that leaves only two non conference games. In order to qualify for a bowl game you would need to win six out of ten and if you lose the bowl you have still won more than you lost.

  If the FCS- D-II and DIV III are happy with playoffs why would the big boys not like it even more?

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Anonymous said...

10 game schedule will never work because of the finances from the missed home game. Even for a team like NCSU, missing 2 home games is likely losing upwards of $10 million from 2 potential home games. No way teams like Michigan or Oklahoma would give up those big finances just for a playoff.

A playoff makes "sense" and it's "fair", but big time college athletics have never been about "fair" play. It's a money driven business, and at this point a playoff just doesnt have the right format to make everyone go all in.

Of course the next playoff we will get is a "+1" system, where it's basically a 4 team playoff. We'll probaly have that in 2 years.

December 31, 2011 at 10:29 AM

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