SWC75
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Today we get the first set of rnakings form the celerity committee that will decide who is in the first College Football Playoff! (Actually we've had a playoff for 15 years- it was just a two team playoff and now it's going to be four teams)
I don't like the "behind closed doors" approach. Who knows what biases or deal-making will be in that room?
Here's how I'd do it. I'd have four polls.
- The Writer's Poll
- The Coaches' Poll
- The Computer Poll
- The Fan's Poll
The Computer Poll would treat every mathematical system, (and I would include those that use margin of victory: the people voting in the other polls are free to consider that), as a vote in a poll just like the writer's coaches' and fan's votes. The fans would be the season ticket holders of all the FBS teams. Presumably they do it like SU does: the season ticket holders all have a pin they use to order their tickets. They could use that to vote on their team's website, (to make sure they are season ticket holders and that they only vote once per week), and the results could then be transmitted to a national computer that would collate them.
Each source would collate the ballots on a 25 points for 1st place, 24 for second, etc. Then the four polls would be collated into one the same way. All four polls and the combined poll would be published each week, (I would start in October so there's some kind of a track record to go on).
I'd go for an 8 team playoff with auto bids to the Power 5 conference winners. The final regular season combined poll would be used (1) as a tie breaker for a divisional or conference championship; (2) to select the three at-large teams and (3) to seed the teams. Play the quarter and semi-finals in December and the final in a bowl game on a rotating basis between the major ones. let the teams that don't make the finals go to one of the other bowl games so they'd have a chance to finish their season on a positive note.
Send the committee home. Surely Condi Rice has something better to do than this.
I don't like the "behind closed doors" approach. Who knows what biases or deal-making will be in that room?
Here's how I'd do it. I'd have four polls.
- The Writer's Poll
- The Coaches' Poll
- The Computer Poll
- The Fan's Poll
The Computer Poll would treat every mathematical system, (and I would include those that use margin of victory: the people voting in the other polls are free to consider that), as a vote in a poll just like the writer's coaches' and fan's votes. The fans would be the season ticket holders of all the FBS teams. Presumably they do it like SU does: the season ticket holders all have a pin they use to order their tickets. They could use that to vote on their team's website, (to make sure they are season ticket holders and that they only vote once per week), and the results could then be transmitted to a national computer that would collate them.
Each source would collate the ballots on a 25 points for 1st place, 24 for second, etc. Then the four polls would be collated into one the same way. All four polls and the combined poll would be published each week, (I would start in October so there's some kind of a track record to go on).
I'd go for an 8 team playoff with auto bids to the Power 5 conference winners. The final regular season combined poll would be used (1) as a tie breaker for a divisional or conference championship; (2) to select the three at-large teams and (3) to seed the teams. Play the quarter and semi-finals in December and the final in a bowl game on a rotating basis between the major ones. let the teams that don't make the finals go to one of the other bowl games so they'd have a chance to finish their season on a positive note.
Send the committee home. Surely Condi Rice has something better to do than this.
