If I was King/Altenate Solution Playoffs for 2009 season
by talonk on Dec 10, 2009 3:24 PM EST
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Now that the regular season has completed (sans Army/Navy), here is what my proposal would have looked like had my playoffs been instituted.
First, my goal would have been to shorten the season by one week (either start one week earlier, or eliminate one fo the two byes teams currently employ) and complete all games (including league championship games) by Saturday November 28th. Assuming all results would not hvae changed, and assuming Navy beat Army, and using the BCS standings to seed the teams, here is how the field would have looked:
Sat Dec 5:
16 Troy 9-3 at 1 Alabama 13-0
15 East Carolina 9-4 at 2 Texas 13-0
14 Central Michigan 11-2 at 3 Cincinnati 12-0
13 Penn St 10-2 at 4 TCU 12-0
12 LSU 9-3 at 5 Florida 12-1
11 VA Tech 9-3 at 6 Boise St 13-0
10 Iowa 10-2 at 7 Oregon 10-2
9 GA Tech 11-2 at 8 Ohio St 10-2
All teams losing in first round, are still eligible for non-BCS bowl games.
Assuming no upsets*, Round 2 becomes:
Sat Dec 20
8 Ohio St 11-2 at 1 Alabama 14-0
7 Oregon 11-2 at 2 Texas 14-0
6 Boise St 14-0 at 3 Cincinnati 13-0
5 Florida 13-1 at 4 TCU 13-0
* The lowest seeded team would always play the highest seeded team in each round.
All teams in Round 2 end up in the BCS bowls:
Now assume Bama, Texas, Cincinnati and TCU win:
BCS bowls (semifinals) look like this:
Sugar: 1 Alabama 15-0 vs 4 TCU 14-0
Fiesta: 2 Texas 15-0 vs 3 Cincinnati 14-0
Rose: Ohio St vs Oregon
Orange: Florida vs Boise St
Winner of Sugar meets winner of Fiesta in Title game following week.
For the non-BCS bowl games, here is how they probably would look like with Iowa and GA Tech sliding schools down the scale:
GMAC: Troy 9-3 vs Central Michigan 11-2 (ACC #9 replacement vs MAC #1)
Alamo: Wisconsin 9-3 vs Texas Tech 8-4 (Big 10 #5 vs Big 12 #4)
Liberty: East Carolina 9-4 vs Arkansas 7-5 (CUSA #1 vs SEC #6/7)
Cotton: Okla St 9-3 vs Ole Miss 8-4 (Big12 #2 vs SEC #3/4 [West champ])
PapaJohns: UConn 7-5 vs South Carolina 7-5 (Big East #4 vs SEC #9)
International: South Florida 7-5 vs Northern Illinois 7-5 (BigEast #5 vs MAC #3)
Gator: Florida St 6-6 vs VA Tech 9-3 (ACC #3 vs Big East #2/Notre Dame)
Capitol One: LSU 9-3 vs Penn St 10-2 (SEC #2 vs Big 10 #2)
Outback: Iowa 10-3 vs Auburn 7-5 (Big 10 #3 vs SEC #3/4 [East champ])
Chick-Fil-A: Tennessee 7-5 vs GA Tech 11-3 (SEC #5 vs ACC #2)
Insight: Iowa St 6-6 vs Mich St 6-6 (Big 12 #6 vs Big 10 #6)
Texas: Missouri 8-4 vs Navy 9-4 (Big 12 #8 vs CUSA/Navy)
Sun: Stanford 8-4 vs Oklahoma 7-5 (Pac 10 #3 vs Big 12 #5)
Armed Forces: Air Force 7-5 vs Houston 10-3 (MWC #3 vs CUSA #3)
Holiday: Arizona 8-4 vs Nebraska 9-4 (Pac 10 #2 vs Big 12 #3)
Humanitarian: Idaho 7-5 vs Bowling Green 7-5 (WAC #1 vs MWC #5 replacement)
Champ Sports: West Virginia 9-3 vs Northwestern 8-4 (ACC #4 vs Big 10 #4)
Eaglebank: Boston College 8-4 vs Temple 9-3 (ACC #8 vs Army/CUSA #6 replacement)
Independence: Georgia 7-5 vs Texas A&M 6-6 (SEC #8 vs Big12 #7)
Music City: Miami FL 9-3 vs Kentucky 7-5 (ACC #5 vs SEC #6/7)
Emerald: USC 8-4 vs North Carolina 8-4 (Pac 10 #4 vs ACC #7)
Meinecke: Pitt 9-3 vs Clemson 8-5 (Big East #3 vs ACC #6)
Pizza: Ohio U 9-4 vs Minnesota 6-6 (MAC #2 vs Big 10 #7)
Hawaii: Nevada 8-4 vs SMU 7-5 (WAC #2 vs CUSA #2)
Poinsettia: Utah 9-3 vs California 8-4 (MWC #2 vs Pac 10 #6 replacement)
Las Vegas: BYU 10-2 vs Oregon St 8-4 (MWC #1 vs Pac 10 #5)
New Orleans: Southern Miss 7-5 vs Middle Tenn St 9-3 (CUSA #4 vs Sun Belt #1)
St. Petersburg: Rutgers 8-4 vs UCF 8-4 (Big East #6 vs CUSA #5)
New Mexico: Fresno St 8-4 vs Wyoming 6-6 (WAC #3 vs MWC #4)
Marshall and UCLA, both 6-6 teams, would get removed from a bowl game.
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I like that you included all the bowls.
and that less 6-6 teams are included.
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And talonk’s plan (and Wetzel’s), and most others who, like me, think the best playoff system would be sixteen teams, 11 conference champions + 5 at-large teams, is that I weakly regionalize the bracket to make traveling a bit easier.
So you get…
#8/East Troy (Sun Belt) at #1/East Alabama (SEC)
#5/East Georgia Tech (ACC) at #4/East Ohio State (B10)
#7/East Penn State (at-large #5) at #2/East Cinci (Big East)
#6/East Virginia Tech (at-large #3) #3/East Florida (at-large #1)
#8/West East Carolina (CUSA) at #1/West Texas (B12)
#5/West Iowa (at-large #2) at #4/West Oregon (P10)
#7/West Central Michigan (MAC) at #2/West TCU (MWC)
#6/West LSU (at-large #4) at #3/West Boise (WAC)
East Carolina draws the short straw as the eastern team that gets stuck in the west bracket.
In theory, regionalizing makes sense, the problem with that is the sheer number of teams on the East Coast vs the West Coast.
Your scenario really doesn’t have any major differences to mine in travel distances. You have East Carolina at Texas and Iowa at Oregon (the same as me). You did save a few hundred miles by swapping LSU with VA Tech, but that isnt much savings overall.
A 16 team playoff requires 8 teams to travel in the first round and 4 in the second round (under my scenario). Based on the payouts the TV contracts would give out for those matchups, I think those 12 travel scenarios would be more than covered.
What happens next year if Ohio State, Alabama, and Miami FL are all top 4 teams? One of them has to be moved into the West bracket, which theoritically won’t save a Pac10/MWC/WAC team from traveling a great distance in rounds one or two.
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