If their was an 8 team playoff w/P5 auto bids

[Alsacs]

You would have autobids
#1 Alabama-SEC
#2 Oregon- PAC-12
#4 Florida State-ACC
#5 Ohio State-Big Ten
#6 Baylor-Big 12

at-large obvious bid
#3 TCU-Big 12

At-large discussions pick 2
#7 Arizona
#8 Michigan State
#9 Mississippi State
#10 Georgia Tech


The debate over those last two bids would be great. Instead of one champion getting screwed.

 

[MaxwellCuse]

You would have autobids
#1 Alabama-SEC
#2 Oregon- PAC-12
#4 Florida State-ACC
#5 Ohio State-Big Ten
#6 Baylor-Big 12

at-large obvious bid
#3 TCU-Big 12

At-large discussions pick 2
#7 Arizona
#8 Michigan State
#9 Mississippi State
#10 Georgia Tech


The debate over those last two bids would be great. Instead of one champion getting screwed.

This is way too obvious for the powers-that-be of college football to figure out. It will never happen. Well, unless a SEC champion gets screwed out of a four-team playoff.

 

[ImperialOrange]

5 p5 auto bids, 1 non p5 auto bid, 2 at large.

Bama
Oregon
Fsu
Tcu
Baylor
Osu
Sparty
Boise

Teams that got dropped for boise? Sorry k state, miss state, and zona. Shouldve won 1 more game. Need to have a non p5 in there and would force indys to either join a conference or be resigned to fighting only for at large bids each year.

 

[SmilinBob]

5 p5 auto bids, 1 non p5 auto bid, 2 at large.

Bama
Oregon
Fsu
Tcu
Baylor
Osu
Sparty
Boise

Teams that got dropped for boise? Sorry k state, miss state, and zona. Shouldve won 1 more game. Need to have a non p5 in there and would force indys to either join a conference or be resigned to fighting only for at large bids each year.

Interesting. Would the Non P5 have any criteria to meet?

 

[KaiserUEO]

No champion is getting screwed.

The bevo has no champion, just unfinished business.

 

[SmilinBob]

Imagine the stink Mississippi would make after crushing MSU? It is by far the best having 8 and what will/would change it is the CCG having an underdog winning thus forcing the team(s) that lost into the at large pool.

 

[SmilinBob]

No champion is getting screwed.

The bevo has no champion, just unfinished business.

Yes they did. They just wanted their cake and to eat it too and it has burned them. Did they have a criteria before this happened to determine the champion?

 

[ImperialOrange]

Hmmm. I'll go with they must be their respective conference champion, record and ooc strength of schedule. Marshall would be knocked out for losing their conference title game and in a case where you'd have 10-2 mwc champ and 10-2 mac champ the sos metric would reward whomever scheduled the toughest thus incentivizing teams to do so.

 

[Alsacs]

Imagine the stink Mississippi would make after crushing MSU? It is by far the best having 8 and what will/would change it is the CCG having an underdog winning thus forcing the team(s) that lost into the at large pool.

Regular seasons would matter a lot more with autobids for P5 conferences. If Mizzou upset Bama then the 2nd SEC team sorry Mizzou earned it. I think the auto bids make the teams that to into the season with high expectations should schedule good non-conference games to give themselves a buffer.

 

[Alsacs]

I don't like giving a non-P5 an autobid with 3 at larges. If the non-P5 team is undefeated and challenged themselves they would be worthy.

 

[SmilinBob]

Regular seasons would matter a lot more with autobids for P5 conferences. If Mizzou upset Bama then the 2nd SEC team sorry Mizzou earned it. I think the auto bids make the teams that to into the season with high expectations should schedule good non-conference games to give themselves a buffer.

Agree 100%.

 

[Chris02M]

You would have autobids
#1 Alabama-SEC
#2 Oregon- PAC-12
#4 Florida State-ACC
#5 Ohio State-Big Ten
#6 Baylor-Big 12

at-large obvious bid
#3 TCU-Big 12

At-large discussions pick 2
#7 Arizona
#8 Michigan State
#9 Mississippi State
#10 Georgia Tech


The debate over those last two bids would be great. Instead of one champion getting screwed.

g5 best of champ would get a spot

 

[Alsacs]

g5 best of champ would get a spot

No way a G5 team should get an autobid. In that scenario UConn would have a better chance to make the playoffs than SU or BC. I think if a G5 team went undefeated and challenged themselves in the Non-conference they could get one of the three at-large spots. Boise State shouldn't be anywhere near the playoffs this year and they would be the best G5 team this year.

 

[gocraz4dasu]

Mississippi State would 100% be one of the teams chosen. The SEC bias is way too strong for a second SEC team to be denied a spot in the 8 team playoff.

 

[orangeinjersey]

8 teams is too many. Id rather have 6 with #1 and #2 getting a 1st round bye

 

[SaltineWarrior]

You would have autobids
#1 Alabama-SEC
#2 Oregon- PAC-12
#4 Florida State-ACC
#5 Ohio State-Big Ten
#6 Baylor-Big 12

at-large obvious bid
#3 TCU-Big 12

At-large discussions pick 2
#7 Arizona
#8 Michigan State
#9 Mississippi State
#10 Georgia Tech


The debate over those last two bids would be great. Instead of one champion getting screwed.

I like the concept; would agree with that call for a non-Power 5 could be represented to keep everyone happy (i.e. minimize any threats of a monopoly).

All it took was the first year of this 4 team playoff system to create the same controversy/debate as before. The BCS was better than the process before and this is better than the BCS. All that means is we will go to 8 sooner than we think (they can always renegotiate when more money is involved) and then we go to 16 soon after that.

In my humble opinion, the conference championships are vulnerable at that point because I have to believe the money will dictate what happens. Right now the attendance is mediocre. The regular season will still mean something and then more teams can participate in the playoffs, generating more money. It also allows for maybe 2 or even 3 non-Power 5 conference teams in the mix, which adds to the potential drama of an upset (think March Madness).

Just one idiots opinion...

 

[ImperialOrange]

No way G5 team should get an autobid. In that scenario UConn would have a better chance to make the playoffs than SU or BC. I think if a G5 team went undefeated and challenged themselves in the Non-conference they could get one of the three at-large spots. Boise State shouldn't be anywhere near the playoffs this year and they would be the best G5 team this year.

Not really. P5 teams would have 2 spots avail, conference champ OR at large. G5 team would have to be conference champ AND the highest ranked of all G5 teams.

 

[ImperialOrange]

8 teams is too many. Id rather have 6 with #1 and #2 getting a 1st round bye

Cant do bye weeks because everyone knows which conference would get one of the bye weeks every year. Its also too big of an advantage when the gap between 1 and 6 this year isn't very big at all.

 

[mountaincuse]

Yes they did. They just wanted their cake and to eat it too and it has burned them. Did they have a criteria before this happened to determine the champion?

Yes, they did have a tie breaker criteria for "one true champion". Head to head. Pretty sure it was still on their website not too long ago.

The big 12 changed that for this playoff scenario and really hurt themselves.

http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10410&ATCLID=1546006

 

[texascpa]

No champion is getting screwed.

The bevo has no champion, just unfinished business.

That can't be right, they've been telling us for months that they will have "One True Champion". Oooops...


That said, I really wanted to see TCU in it.

 

[DomeStranger]

I like the idea of an auto-bid for each conference. Nobody gets left out and it really rewards you for winning your conference.

I like the idea that if GT beat FSU last night then they would've gone to the playoffs. I like the element of the underdog and allowing destiny and a little bit of luck to allow a miracle season for some under ranked team.