Could this be a way to fix ALL the current problems with the CFP?

[Isaiah 63:1]

Not to be that guy, but Butler did not win.

I’m sure there are many differences between us. One of them is that I had to look it up and you probably didn’t…

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

Yes, and it should be done where #1 plays #128, #2 plays #127, etc...

But that wouldn’t be fair! The top 16 should play it off, and the second 16, and so on. Then have a playoff amongst the eight winners of those brackets (brackets 1 v 2, 3 v 4, 5 v 6, and 7 v 8. It’s the only way to compensate for the inherent unfairness in the funding and talent levels of the various programs; everybody gets a trophy, and everyone has a chance…

 

[BigAlinKnoxville]

But that wouldn’t be fair! The top 16 should play it off, and the second 16, and so on. Then have a playoff amongst the eight winners of those brackets (brackets 1 v 2, 3 v 4, 5 v 6, and 7 v 8. It’s the only way to compensate for the inherent unfairness in the funding and talent levels of the various programs; everybody gets a trophy, and everyone has a chance…

Why stop there if we want fairness? Take the top 250 Division 1 teams (out of 265 total) and divide the national championship equally among them.

 

[BamaBoySince89]

G5 gets their own 12/16-team playoffs, use the top 6 bowls that are under the traditional NY6 bowls

G5 plays their National Championship game on Friday, P4 on Saturday. Tell the NFL to kick rocks

P4 could go to a 16 team playoff based off a first round/quarterfinal round with the top 4 teams in each conference. That way the conference championship games still matter

1st round would be on campus (and it should be the 9th conference game)

2nd round (conference championship) would be:
Sugar Bowl: SEC
Cotton Bowl: Big XII
Rose Bowl: Big Ten
Orange: ACC

Semifinals could be the Chick Fil A and Fiesta and have them rotate

NCG played at a neutral site at a NFL-Venue

Everybody is happy for now, until the 5th highest team in a conference feels like they got snubbed

Make ND join a conference or hope the G5 lets you in theirs

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Whether we like it or not expanding the playoff is inevitable and it’s going start next year. Some of the snarky old timers on the board might want to find a new hobby it seems from some of the answers. Vegas is about to get rid of all of these bowl games that have 7-6 teams playing against each other! I’ve already started collecting fishing gear for these 70 degree December days down here on the gulf.

 

[TideMan09]

Honestly I wish they'd bring back the BCS Formula & use the top 12 that keeps the human bias out of it all together..

That's just me though..

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Honestly I wish they'd bring back the BCS Formula & use the top 12 that keeps the human bias out of it all together..

That's just me though..

Agree 100%!

It also needs to go to 16. The top four getting a one-game bye is not fair!

Using the BCS formula takes out the bias/ineptitude that we are currently seeing AND encourages stronger OOC games...

BTW, Sankey really screwed up going to a nine-game SEC format!

 

[colbysullivan]

Honestly I wish they'd bring back the BCS Formula & use the top 12 that keeps the human bias out of it all together..

That's just me though..

1/3 of the BCS formula was the AP poll…

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I’m sure there are many differences between us. One of them is that I had to look it up and you probably didn’t…

Your central point is still correct.

And it's funny, I don't care all that much for basketball. I watch the TOURNAMENT for the fun, the "rush" of the tournament, but I haven't seen a regular season CBB game in over 30 years now.

It's just so many people cite George Mason and Butler as Cinderellas, but the FACT is that neither team WON the tournament, although Butler came damn close.

There have been - at most - 3 Cinderella champions and as I've noted previously even those are highly suspicious and owe more to "this team was underrated overall" than they do anything else. NC State (1983) and Villanova (1985) played in the toughest conferences that year (similar to SEC teams in football now), so their loss total was artificially high but they were good teams. PLUS - those two champions occurred when there was no shot clock, which also severely limits the ability of a Cinderella to just pass the ball around the court all night long.

And here's the thing with 1988 Kansas - no, they weren't ranked entering the tournament, but they were still a number six seed, they got lucky that #14 Murray State knocked out NC State and then #7 Vandy knocked out #2 Pitt, and their Elite Eight game was against Kansas State team they'd already played three times (losing twice). They had the best player in CBB that year (Danny Manning), and the part that is so often forgotten is that it was a team of 11 juniors and seniors, FIVE OF WHOM HAD PLAYED IN THE FINAL FOUR IN 1986! So it's not like this was a scraped together team of guys from the local YMCA, it was a well-recruited team whose freshmen would make the Final Four again as seniors in 1991 (and lose to Duke).


So two things are true:
1) what can work in basketball will never happen in college football - ever
2) even the Cinderella stories aren't "really" Cinderella stories when you actually look at them

None of these is the "Miracle on Ice," a true Cinderella story.

 

[TideMan09]

1/3 of the BCS formula was the AP poll…

That's true brother, if we're going too have playoffs, I want playoffs based on what you did on the football field & your performance..

Make who you play count as a criteria of making the playoffs..

Keep human bias & human emotions out of the equation of making the playoffs..