College Football Playoff Being Finalized

Hadn’t thought of it quite that way.

Unfortunately, after thinking this over for a while (seriously I went back and forth for at least 10 min) I would have to say that you aren’t really a true champion if you can’t beat anyone anywhere. Just a solid contender.

But take away the “national championship”. Because the “National” part of it connotes that they would face other regions in the nation to determine who is an overall winner.

Otherwise, lets just hand out participation trophies and be done with it.

Yay for regional champions!
That way we have less empirical evidence, and can argue more about who would beat who.

My argument here is that there are more than 4 leagues (big ones), and thusly, it will again become a beauty pageant, only between conferences (god knows we need more of this). So just put all the champions in a tourney along with Highly ranked (and perhaps undefeated) wildcards (read: independents or lesser conference champions), and let them settle the argument on the field. Every year.

What’s so good about only 4? That you would somehow have “more entertaining” games? Doubtful. Everyone likes the underdog. Good ratings, good entertainment. You just don’t want to let them in? Because they might fluke out one down year and win? Is this your argument?

But because it IS 8, and there are only 5 big conferences, and TCU joined one of them, you might once in a while get 2 or 3 from the same conference, if it is loaded and they are 11-1 or some such nonsense.

I’m not saying it’s perfect…

But it’s definitely better than the atrocity committed last year. And this way, there is room for teams like Boise (and others in the future) to compete with the big boys.

No more “Bus” from ESPN Insiders. They will lose the majority of the time, and fall out of favor, or they will win and implement a new style of football.

Competition breeds greatness. Selection breeds…Well, how the hell would a teacup poodle survive in the real world?

and the other 2 would be the wild card slots…

This would be determined by record and BCS ranking. And open to ALL comers (auto-bid, indy, smaller champs…whatever), and SOS still means something for a 1or 2 loss team.

It’s kind of a middle ground to the two systems. Neither is really favored. The regular season means something, SOS still means something (for wild card slots), and it allows all the major conferences a bid to show their worth against top teams. Not 10-2 Oklahoma v 7-4 Arizona or some stupid shit, just because they are trying to find the 37th team selection in a regional bowl, and they are next in line.

Again, not perfect. But better. And perhaps Boise will fluke out one year. Let’s not forget though, they would have to face 3 other champions to do so. In that case, they deserve it. They probably are on par with other BIG teams and should be recognized for it.

but it’s really hard to implement it, especially if everyone else is trying to do so. The Peterson/Harsin Boise offense is one of the only instances I’ve seen of a program with limited resources install that kind of system effectively.

As the Big 12 demonstrates: Many teams can find the athletes to field awesome spread teams, but the SEC demonstrates that there aren’t enough big, fast bodies to go around for everyone to play smashmouth football and dominate the line of scrimmage with power.

KSU and Va Tech are 2 more examples off the top of my head of smaller programs with Power football principles and both redshirt, greyshirt, juco transfer, and option their way to victory.