Playoff System Yes Or No.

...all college football is missing is a little something at the end of the season.Big_O2006

That would be a Playoff System....IMO

Imagine if they had the BCS in the NFL, The Patriots and Cowboys end up with the best record in their conference so they automatically play for the superbowl. Does that sound right? What about previous seasons does the best team with the best record win the super bowl..no. The rest of the teams who finish with great records are left out. No wild card teams, and no division winners can have a shot to prove they can win the super bowl. You would ever have had the broncos, steelers or raiders as super bowl champions as they where wild cards and so on.

Division II has playoff why can't Division I have one.

Start with a 8 team playoff format, play 1 game in December and 1st week in January and a week or 2 weeks later the National Championship game. Some might feel a 16 team would be more fair but I think to start off with 8 team would be fair, You use the same formula like the bcs or come up with a new one to figure the best 8 teams to be in the playoffs.You keep the bowl system the way it is let the lesser teams have their bowls the way it yes today. You could have for example the insight.com or tire bowl be the sight of #8 seed vs #1.Try and keep the higher seed teams play in bowls close to their location for less travel they way they do in the NCAA basketball tournament. Or just let the 1st round games be played at the home stadium of the higher seeds.

In every sport, they use playoff format, why doesn't Division I football?The argument a playoff would ruin the tradition of bowls is not a good one, the bcs already has done that. No longer does the big ten and pac ten winner automatically meet in the rose bowl or the big 12(then eight) play in the orange bowl. Lets just move on get a playoff system in place.

I agree to an extent. Should be a 4 team playoff. #1 vs #4 and #2 vs #3. Winners play for the title.

Now that I think about it, college football is exciting and more important when every game matters and with a playoff system, it kind of would ruin the game and just be like the NFL...all college football is missing is a little something at the end of the season.Big_O2006

I say yes for a playoff system, the current system is very flawed.

I agree to an extent. Should be a 4 team playoff. #1 vs #4 and #2 vs #3. Winners play for the title.

GamerForca

BCS people just want to make money, they could just have the winner of the 4 bowl games play each other, that's 2 extra games. Or they can get rid of 2 and have the winner of say the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl meet for the national title, 1 extra game. ^ Yes it's exciting all season, but the other sports have taught us the "best" team sometimes isn't. You have an underdog come in like the Rockies and whoop everyone when it matters. Who knows, Boise State could have been national champs or someone else that will be shunned from the BCS title game. X360PS3AMD05

That's true. I still remember the Cardinals, far from the best team in 2006.

I would love a playoff system in college Football. This is how it should go. 32 team field. First place teams in each conf. get in automatically and then the rest of the team get in on RPI like they do in College Basketball. You have two number one seeds. A west and east bracket. The games start week after Thanksgiving and all the games are played at all the bowl games so that way all the bowl games well mean something. Double the BCS bowl games so that way all the quarter final, Semi final and Champiship games well happen in Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange Bowl. You could play the first round game on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. That would be four games a day. Then you have the second round games on Friday and Saturday. The third round games will be on Friday and Saturday. Fourth round would happen on Saturday. Then you have two week off in till the final game on Saturday and it can happen around middle of January.

You think college Football is king of sports here in United States now. Just do this and it well be king of sports in the good old U S of A. A network would make so much money off of this it's not even funny.

What's insane X360PS3AMD05 is that we have a system that doesn't work in college Football and when it dose work it only works once every three years i.e. like USC VS Texas. I tired of always saying Ohio State VS. Florida were in the Championship game but what about Boise state. As I recall they were the only team that didn't lose last year and don't give me their were in a week conf. either. Having a prefect record is having prefect record period end of story.

The players can play another 5 games also. Just get rid of all the stupid Big 12, Sec, MWC Championship type game at the end of the year. Which by the way destroyed more team chances to play the National Championship than it help and they do it for money anyways. So why not like make money on playoff system. At least that way well know who the real Champ is that end of the year. Another added bonus to this is that more team in regular season might take more chances and play teams that might lose to because one lost won't cost them the season.

27 post season winners in College Football the way it is now!!! What the heck is this preschool garage. College Football should be like it is in every other sport in the United State. One winner and hole bunch of losers.

If that had the stupid system in College Basketball my favorite team wouldn't even won it only National Championship in 97. That team being the Arizona Wildcats. Their were the four seed that year.

Now that I think about it, college football is exciting and more important when every game matters and with a playoff system, it kind of would ruin the game and just be like the NFL...all college football is missing is a little something at the end of the season.Big_O2006

Also, why no poll?

What's insane X360PS3AMD05 is that we have a system that doesn't work in college Football and when it dose work it only works once every three years i.e. like USC VS Texas. I tired of always saying Ohio State VS. Florida were in the Championship game but what about Boise state. As I recall they were the only team that didn't lose last year and don't give me their were in a week conf. either. Having a prefect record is having prefect record period end of story.

The players can play another 5 games also. Just get rid of all the stupid Big 12, Sec, MWC Championship type game at the end of the year. Which by the way destroyed more team chances to play the National Championship than it help and they do it for money anyways. So why not like make money on playoff system. At least that way well know who the real Champ is that end of the year. Another added bonus to this is that more team in regular season might take more chances and play teams that might lose to because one lost won't cost them the season.

N15PCA

I'm going to use the weak conference schedule, come on. Florida and Ohio St. would easily go undefeated with that schedule. Boise would have had at least 5 loses if they played Florida's schedule last year (and I'm being generous).

As for the fact of getting rid of the conference championship games, you have to be crazy. I can't stand those conferences that don't have them (get to 12 teams and add one). You don't know who's the best in the conference, just look at Iowa this year, what if they went undefeated in Big 10 play, they don't have to play Ohio St. or Michigan, and you want me to believe they are the best from the Big 10, no way. Having the conference championship game just solidifies how good a team you really are.

As for the fact of getting rid of the conference championship games, you have to be crazy. I can't stand those conferences that don't have them (get to 12 teams and add one). You don't know who's the best in the conference, just look at Iowa this year, what if they went undefeated in Big 10 play, they don't have to play Ohio St. or Michigan, and you want me to believe they are the best from the Big 10, no way. Having the conference championship game just solidifies how good a team you really are.
geaux321

Therein lies the problem. Those crazy conferences like the Big Ten that actually have more than 10 teams need a championship game b/c they don't play everyone in the conference. However, the PAC 10 actually has 10 teams like the name suggests (imagine that), so EVERY team plays EVERY OTHER TEAM. USC plays Cal, Oregon, ASU, and UCLA. There is no question who the best in the conference is when they all play each other. There is no problem as long as it is a true round robin schedule.

[QUOTE="geaux321"]As for the fact of getting rid of the conference championship games, you have to be crazy. I can't stand those conferences that don't have them (get to 12 teams and add one). You don't know who's the best in the conference, just look at Iowa this year, what if they went undefeated in Big 10 play, they don't have to play Ohio St. or Michigan, and you want me to believe they are the best from the Big 10, no way. Having the conference championship game just solidifies how good a team you really are.
murlow12

Therein lies the problem. Those crazy conferences like the Big Ten that actually have more than 10 teams need a championship game b/c they don't play everyone in the conference. However, the PAC 10 actually has 10 teams like the name suggests (imagine that), so EVERY team plays EVERY OTHER TEAM. USC plays Cal, Oregon, ASU, and UCLA. There is no question who the best in the conference is when they all play each other. There is no problem as long as it is a true round robin schedule.

This is true, so my problem is just with the Big 10, it's just one more team.

Yes, with so much parity today you almost have to. Times are diferent. Teams, schedules, schools, everything. I will not watch if Ohio St. plays in the National Championship again w/ their patty-cake schedule and frail Big 10.d12malu

That's why you should play everyone in your conf. We do that in the Pac-10 and if your conf.dosen't need a championship game at the end of the conf. season. so if your conf. is to big then I don't what to tell you. We also don't know if Boise State wouldn't have prefect record in the Sec, big 12, Big 10 last year. Just because their in a smaller conf. doesn't mean that can't play. Ask OU about Boise State.

The plus one game is ok idea, but the end the powers that be in college Football are inching very so close to a playoff. Their just doing it ever so slowly.

We also don't know if Boise State wouldn't have prefect record in the Sec, big 12, Big 10 last year. Just because their in a smaller conf. doesn't mean that can't play. Ask OU about Boise State.

N15PCA

Like I said before, it's easy to show up for one game and win (ask Stanford or Appalachain State). But to go up against 3 or 4 teams like Oklahoma and it starts to wear on you and suddenly those easy games, turn into much harder ones. Boise didn't even play one ranked team all season until they played Oklahoma, I still don't think they deserved that spot in the Fiesta Bowl.