Bowling for a Better Regular Season
by BCS2Me on Dec 10, 2009 10:59 PM EST
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I'm not that in favor of a football playoff for the following reasons:
- With the current bowl scenarios, it places a greater emphasis on the regular season. This is my main point. I like having each week be something special during the regular season. This way a 2-loss team cannot make a run at the championship.
- With the basketball tournament, teams can play more games in a shorter amount of time. The teams are smaller and can travel easier. Football travel takes more planning and involves more people.
- How many teams would be involved? What criteria would be used for the national playoffs? Would the other bowls still get to invite teams not in consideration for the national championship? This year, would the top ten teams be invited? I don't see how Iowa should be involved in a playoff. I would think you would need to invite each conference winner, or at least each major conference winner. Or should it just be whoever is in the top 8 of the BCS rankings? What would work one year may not be applicable the next.
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Thank you for your input!
You raise several concerns I address in my outline of what the real world constraints of the college football postseason.
I certainly agree that having teams with multiple losses in a single elimination tournament sends the message that one tournament game equals multiple regular season games and this would severely undercut the value of the regular season. I am not sure that two loss teams would be unpalatable to most, looking at LSU 2007 in particular, but a three or four loss team would be a travesty to the regular season.
One football game per week is a maximum and the health of the players adds significant restraints to number of rounds in a tournament. Along with the existing regular season this likely limits the number of teams to less than eight.
I invite you to examine my design for this year. In 2009 it would have involved seven teams and include the Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl as semi finals with the Orange Bowl untouched.
The eligance of my design is that is adjusts to each year’s situation.
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