Do you think the BCS system should be replaced by a playoff system?

[Lev Vyvanse]

What do you think?

[theAPAOps5]

Let me think......

HELL YES! I hate the BCS.

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

Neither, I'll write up my thoughts and post them later.

[anthonypacino]

Yes, I have already worked up a plan one night when I couldn't sleep, it requires a HUGE change that most conferences would fight against, some re-alignment of teams and conferences, a conference title game for everyone, a 11 game schedule with a mandatory 8 game conference schedule and 3 D-1 out of conference games. No bye weeks and the first week starting in Sept. They would finish around the second week in Nov. Conference winners get a first round bye the rest of the field would be decided by records and rankings a mandotory number of 7 wins to qualify you will not be rewarded for being one game over .500. A type of RPI ranking would be used to establish who played who and those would be the first round of smaller tier bowl games working their way up to the current BCS named bowls.

This would be great to watch and highly profitable for the NCAA, it would make EVERY bowl game important, mostly the only people who watch the Chik-Fla Bowl are alum of the teams not deemed worthy of the "higher class" bowls, they suffer from low ratings because they don't mean anything to anyone outside of those two schools. But with my type of playoff all the games have meaning, just think teams like Boise St. could have the chance to be Cinderella, Rutgers-like teams could upset a Texas. Smaller conferences wouldn't be left out of the hunt and would still have the reward and something to play for.

I know lots of people would argue that the kids can't do that long of a season because of finals and studying...but aren't the basketball teams practicing and playing in out of state tourneys at the same time? I think it could work, maybe.

[Kaylore]

I think you have to keep the bowls to keep everyone happy, so I think the easiest fix would be to have a playoff series with the top four teams. The rest play in bowls. That way you keep the bowls but still get a pseudo playoff/real championship.

Beyond something simple like that I don't foresee enough people willing to go along with a radical change to a new system.

[TexanBob]

My playoff system incorporates the BCS but only for seeding. You take the top eight conference champions (Notre Dame is treated like a conference unto itself) and rank them according to their BCS standings. NO wild cards.
A first round this year might look like:

8) Wake Forest at 1) Ohio State
7) Boise State at 2) Florida
6) Notre Dame at 3) Louisville
5) Oklahoma at 4) USC

* - this is being posted before the official BCS standings come out.

First-round games played in mid-December at the higher seed's home site.

Semi-finals played at two bowl sites on New Year's Day.

Finals played in mid-January at a third rotating bowl site.

[Lev Vyvanse]

My playoff system incorporates the BCS but only for seeding. You take the top eight conference champions (Notre Dame is treated like a conference unto itself) and rank them according to their BCS standings. NO wild cards.
A first round this year might look like:

8) Wake Forest at 1) Ohio State
7) Boise State at 2) Florida
6) Notre Dame at 3) Louisville
5) Oklahoma at 4) USC

* - this is being posted before the official BCS standings come out.

First-round games played in mid-December at the higher seed's home site.

Semi-finals played at two bowl sites on New Year's Day.

Finals played in mid-January at a third rotating bowl site.

What if Notre Dame goes 0-10?

[Kaylore]

What if Notre Dame goes 0-10?

Then they still get a bowl game because they are Notre Dame.

[Lev Vyvanse]

Then they still get a bowl game because they are Notre Dame.

Sounds like a great plan.:thumbsup:

[Northman]

My playoff system incorporates the BCS but only for seeding. You take the top eight conference champions (Notre Dame is treated like a conference unto itself) and rank them according to their BCS standings. NO wild cards.
A first round this year might look like:

8) Wake Forest at 1) Ohio State
7) Boise State at 2) Florida
6) Notre Dame at 3) Louisville
5) Oklahoma at 4) USC

* - this is being posted before the official BCS standings come out.

First-round games played in mid-December at the higher seed's home site.

Semi-finals played at two bowl sites on New Year's Day.

Finals played in mid-January at a third rotating bowl site.




This is how i was thinking about it too. It should at least be 8 conference winners playing for all the marbles.

[BroncoMan4ever]

My honest opinion is to run a playoff system, something like a 10game season with at least 6, preferably 8 of those games being within the same conference.
At the end of the 10 games, run a mini playoff with the top 4 teams, leading to a conference champ from each conference, at which point each conference winner would go up against the top team from another conference in playoffs among the top teams in the nation, regardless of school size. Have the last 2 teams standing after the playoffs and then you have a true National Champion.

[TexanBob]

What if Notre Dame goes 0-10?

They have to have a higher BCS rating that the eighth best conference champ (or Navy, for that matter) to qualify. I know a lot of haters think ND would make it with a 5-6 record, but they wouldn't. They had a few years lately when they were not even ranked. Personally, I wouldn't mind a provision that says Notre Dame must make the top 8 or the top 12 in order to qualify, to make up for the lack of a conference.

However, it's almost guranteed they will play USC and Michigan every year so that is two top schools they have to overcome. Granted, they didn't beat either one this year and still came in at #11. But, then, they beat everyone else but those two.