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[QUOTE="ImperialOrange, post: 146420, member: 362"]
8 team playoffs is ideal. 4-2-1 structure gives you 7 total playoff bowls. Use the 4 major bowls currently in place and upgrade or add 3 more venues. We've got Pasadena, Tempe, New Orleans, and Miami so you've got to go North with at least 2 locations. I'll go with D.C., Chicago, and Kansas City or St Louis. Higher ranked team gets to select venue for the first round.
 
Time crunch and travel concerns become an issue, I've got an answer. 1) eliminate conference championship games since, as witnessed this year, making them is of little importance. 2) schedule games at 2 week intervals. LSU played it's last regular season game November 25th. If they win all the way to the championship game that would put their 3 games on 12/10, 12/24, and 1/7 or surrounding days Fri-Mondays. Same final date that we have now but alot more interesting football in between.
 
FWIW I would eliminate auto bids but keep the 2 team max per league. Sorry 2011 Big East, 2011 Big Ten and SEC #3... maybe next year. Also, if you don't want a 'lessor' school taking an auto bid you may want to schedule them OOC and make sure they don't get there.
 
1st round this year based on final regular season BCS would've been:
 
LSU vs Oregon (a rematch that was interesting)
Bama vs Boise
Okie State vs Houston
Stanford vs Va Tech
 
If Chalk wins out you get
 
LSU vs Stanford
Bama vs OSU
 
IF chalk wins again you get
 
LSU vs Bama BUT people are actually interested in the outcome.
 
It's a very rough draft but it could be done. How do you not diminish other bowls? Schedule them on the weekdays and weekends that don't contain the playoff games. The games that people don't care about know cannot be saved, interest wise, regardless.
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