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The BCS schools and the NCAA have both requested that you come up with a plan to organize the crazy world of college football and make it right. They are drawing on your expertise, logic, and knowledge of the game to save it from itself.
They wish you to answer the following to explain your plan; anyone interested can copy and paste and answer any or all questions. I welcome reading your responses:
* How many games should be played during the regular season?
* What is the optimum number of teams that should be in a conference? How should they be divided? (divisions?) Should there be a conference round robin (even if it meant eliminating some out-of-conf games)? Should there be a conference championship game?
* Should both major conferences/ND be included in a championship game(s) as is currently set up or should mid-majors be part of the process as well? Or should there be two championship set ups: the big boys and the midmajors?
* How should the championship be set up? One game? A series of games? Who gets to go? Would it just be conference champs or at large teams as well?
* How would bowls figure into the new system? Would they be used as part of a championship series? Would bowls that are not part of that system still be encouraged to go on with little more than just interesting match ups at stake?
* How would you handle the issue of Notre Dame? Keep its status identical with what it is now? Make it tougher to compete? Eliminate ND if it does not join a conference?
Thats a lot...I'd make sure you play every one in your conference once. 10 teams gives you 2 exhibitions for a 11 game schedule. No conference champ game...winner of conference gets into national champ tourney (8 major conferences) based on avg conference attendance at games.
After conference championships take the top 8 in the BCS (no auto bid for conference winners - true top 8 in rankings)
Place them into the 4 current BCS games to be played on Dec. 31 or Jan 1 only (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta)
4 winners play 7-10 days later in Semifinals (same site or two different sites)
1 week later (around mid-January) play the championship game
Keep the remaining bowl system in place
I like this plan, especially the part about only including the true top 8 teams in the rankings. With a playoff system like this, the championship is ultimately decided on the field and the top teams left out of the playoffs still get to go to a bowl.
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