Bowl Projections

[ReardenSteel]

How about a 16 team then? Hey, my favorite sport is college football. They can take that shit out 'til April as far as I'm concerned. 

I'm just thinking out loud. I didn't mean to imply 12 was bad, just a bit tricky. Maybe it makes a kind of sense to have teams like Utah and Boise State play that extra game against a top school. Same goes for a traditional "top school" who may have stubbled during the season.

Having 16 teams would not add a game to what might potentialy happen in a 12 team tourney. I don't know though. That is a lot of football. Fantastic for fans but not so much for the kids that play. More injuries, more time away from the books for the (I don't know, 97%?) guys not going to the NFL. Fewer games in the reagular season? Definitely fewer regular season interconference games amoung the big schools which I love to watch.

Maybe Obama can fix it up good. 

[Rebel]

You could always have the top 4 with a bye, like the NFL's best teams have byes.

[ReardenSteel]

17 Oregon State 
18 Brigham Young 
19 Michigan State 
20 Florida State 
21 Boston College 
22 Georgia Tech 
23 Oregon 
24 Northwestern
25 Pittsburgh

Food for thought. Those are the BCS top 25 teams that would not be in a 16 team tournament. Would they still have bowl games? Which ones?

[ReardenSteel]

You could always have the top 4 with a bye, like the NFL's best teams have byes.

Yeah thats what I said. And it makes a certain kind of sense to me too. I think I like 12 better than 16. I still might like 8 the best but 12 works once ya made me think about it. Ugh. I don't know. Playoffs offer the perfect solution to who's number one (duh) but it comes at a price. How do we rank teams? Trashing the traditional bowls. Extra games.

I would need to see the whole plan before a playoff system got my "vote".

[Wretched Excess]

I will say it again;  a college football playoff won't solve anything.  you will just change the controversy from "shouldn't #3 have been in the championship game instead of #2", to whether or not the the one or two teams that were left out of the playoff bracket were more deserving than the bottom two teams that got in.

and on top of that, creating some perfect system whereby college football nirvana may be achieved sounds like a disturbingly liberal idea in the first place.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I will say it again;  a college football playoff won't solve anything.  you will just change the controversy from "shouldn't #3 have been in the championship game instead of #2", to whether or not the the one or two teams that were left out of the playoff bracket were more deserving than the bottom two teams that got in.

and on top of that, creating some perfect system whereby college football nirvana may be achieved sounds like a disturbingly liberal idea in the first place.

They do it in Division I-AA, or the Bowl Subdivision or whatever the hell they call it.  Not usually much controversy when they pick the 16 who qualify.  If they had a 16 team playoff, the same controversies, real or otherwise, would be on the same level as who got into the NCAA basketball tourney.  Usually teams that would get a 10-11 seed anyway, who almost never advance to the final four.

[Wretched Excess]

They do it in Division I-AA, or the Bowl Subdivision or whatever the hell they call it.  Not usually much controversy when they pick the 16 who qualify.  If they had a 16 team playoff, the same controversies, real or otherwise, would be on the same level as who got into the NCAA basketball tourney.  Usually teams that would get a 10-11 seed anyway, who almost never advance to the final four.

irrelevant, once again, my good friend.  that's like saying that since little league has a coherent playoff system, that MLB should also have one.