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Originally Posted by Gugstanley
I would still like to see a playoff and I think you can do it and let the non-AQ conference get a piece of the action. First every conference has to have a minimum of 12 teams and play a championship game. The winner of the AQ conference championship games gets into the playoffs.
We won't have 5 non AQ conferences as the Wac is nearly dead and can just be absorbed by the Mountain West. So the four remaining Non AQ conferences can have their champion play the champion from another non AQ conference and the winner gets into the playoffs. Pull eight at large teams into the mix and SOS still plays a big factor in who makes it. Plus with 16 teams it would be hard to argue someone get left out.
Let the other teams play the bowl games as they are arranged now. The season wouldn't be meaningless.
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These sorts of suggestions aren't logical though.
The conferences operate independent of the BCS and the NCAA. Saying that every conference has a 12 teams and then dispersing the good non-AQ teams through-out them is nice in theory, but there's so many issues with that statement in reality.
Why would any conference want to add teams that don't provide them any real financial benefit?
How do you convince the teams in said conferences to add another team to the conference (taking another piece of the pie) without solid proof that they'd contribute financially?
What happens to the conferences in basketball and other sports? Everyone loves to throw Boise St. in the Pac-10, but they provide almost no benefit to a conference outside of football.
The one thing I've come to realize about a football playoff is that for it to make any logistical sense it'd have to come following a major conference realignment (ie; the 4 conference, 16 teams each superconference rumors that we heard about all summer). The problem is that there's no way for the NCAA to force the teams or conferences into doing this (unless it's financially viable) so it's likely a long ways away.