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Originally Posted by GirlySports
not bad not bad, just a couple of things...
It's not fair to have a semi and a final in the same place. Not fair to have one team travel and the other team sitting there waiting for them.
And again that's alot of travel. One team in four weeks in 2091 could play in the Motor City Bowl (Ford Field), Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl.
Detroit, Dallas, LA, Miami! Good luck to that team!
I think at least the first round has to be a home game. Lower seed goes to higehr seeds house.
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Definitely could be tweaked. I hesitate to include ANY home games because that would cut out 8 bowl games from the playoff system. Maintaining as much bowl tradition as possible is critical, IMO. Those 8 first round bowl games could be rotated so more bowls get the opportunity to participate. the incentive for the higher seed should be to play a lower seed.
I like giving each major bowl the chance to have both a semi final and a NC game in the same year. They essentially do it that way now. As for travel, I don't buy it. I think that argument held water 30-40 years ago when air travel for sports teams weren't chartered or on jets.. With the way it is now, with the money and support that can allow a team to travel easily, the travel argument is completely bunk.
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I could live with that too but the rankings and method have to be changed.If Boise State and TCU from cupcake schedules both get in and the 9th place team is out, there's a fight again.
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The only way I see (live with it) non-BCS teams making the playoff bracket is if they went undefeated (or 1 loss) and had at least 3 BCS opponents on the schedule every year. Doesn't matter if those BCS teams are ranked at the time they play them or not. This year, Virginia Tech and Oregon State wouldn't pass the sniff test in my playoff model. VT, Oregon State and say Texas Tech (at Boise State) would be sufficient however.
I would also consider a cap on how high non-BCS teams could rise in the seedings - say, no higher than 5th. BCS schools created this market/league and should be rewarded. Non-BCS teams can go create their own if they don't like it.