I for one, after talking to some of my Domer friends think there is a better than 50% chance ND will join the ACC.
I also like the 8 team playoff. No exceptions for ND.
And after talking to my PSU friends, I also think this to be true about them. Of course, there's only the one, but she's cool.
I for one, after talking to some of my Domer friends think there is a better than 50% chance ND will join the ACC.
I also like the 8 team playoff. No exceptions for ND.
One scenario: ND finishes 11-1, Alabama finishes 12-1, Texas finishes 11-1, Ohio State finishes 12-1, USC finishes 12-1, GT finishes 13-0, Boise finishes 13-0, BYU finishes 12-0; who do the voters/committee pick as the top 4? Remember, you nor I get a vote.
IMO You should have to be a conference champion. Not just a division winner. This eliminates any one conference from taking up half the "playoff". This eliminates another all SEC or any other conference championship game. This also takes away the media conference bias that allowed a fiasco such as last years game.
The only way to allow a non conference winner into the playoff would be to implement a "wildcard" into it, which then would mean they would have to expand the # of teams in it.
You should have to win your conference. If the criteria is division winner then you could have a conference championship rematch 2 weeks after the game. It doesn't make sense.
The conference championship games would basically be play-in games to the playoff. The only difference is that if there is an upset in the conference championship the upsetting team may not go. For instance, Clemson would not have gone last year, but if VT won they would've been in the playoff.
Last year the playoff (with conference champs only) probably would have been
LSU-SEC
OSU-Big12
Oregon-Pac12
Wisconsin-Big10
left out-Clem(ACC) WV(BigEast)
With division winners allowed
LSU-SEC
Ala-SEC
OSU-Big12
Oregon-Pac12
left out-Wisconsin(Big10) Clem(ACC) WV(BigEast)
feel free to correct me if I missed something
I don't think it should have anything to do with conference affiliation. The climate has been since the BCS era that if you don't win all of your games, you can hardly expect to play for the title anyway. I think no undefeated team should be left out if possible, and then let rank in the polls decide the rest. This all on its own will probably cap the number of teams that can go from each conference, since you are only going to have the possibility of 1 undefeated team from any conference that has a championship game.
We've only had 1 BCS season where this would be screwed up, and that was in 2009 when Boise, TCU, Alabama, Texas, and Cincy went undefeated into bowl play. Boise was the only one outside the top 4, so they wouldn't have played in the playoff. The difference between Boise going and getting left out would have been a ref adding 1 second to the clock for Texas, though. Scandalous.
I read it differently, that it would be the top 4 ranked conference (or at least division) champions. Better than what we have now, imo. If we went undefeated we'd be in.
This.
It's pretty simple. If ACC gets a team ranked in the top 4, they are in. If they are good enough, the ranking will come. It happened when Miami ruled the weak Big East. It happened when FSU ruled the weak ACC. And it worked when GT ran the table in 1990.
If a team earns it, and deserves it, that particular year, then they'll be there. I am not worried about the proposal, I just want to see someone in the ACC, anyone, step up and deliver.
And oh yeah, I wish there was a NFL developmental league, too. Tech would be much more competitive, just like in baseball. Football prospects who have no business in college could actually earn a ---- paycheck. It would take some billionaire marketing genius to get it done, because the NFL doesn't have to have a developmental league, that's what college football is to them.
With division winners allowed
LSU-SEC
Ala-SEC
OSU-Big12
Oregon-Pac12
left out-Wisconsin(Big10) Clem(ACC) WV(BigEast)
feel free to correct me if I missed something
It will never happen because no one would watch it.
You have to remember that CFB has changed since the early 2000's. The way money is being thrown around now and the constant touting of the SEC will make it very difficult for an ACC to represent if the past few years are any indicator.
No one watches minor league baseball or MLS but it still works, especially in smaller markets like a Portland or say a San Antonio. It doesn't have to have large salaries either. A $35,000 to $50,000 job to play football straight out of high school doesn't sound too bad to a 17 or 18 year old, either. Keep the league to a 22 year old max age, and if the NFL poaches anyone, have a payout clause. You could draft college athletes, too. My dream would be to take some of that undeveloped talent away from SEC schools. This would be the best thing to happen to Tech football.It will never happen because no one would watch it.