Jim
11-25-2008, 04:52 PM
Yes, your evaluations, if you bother to read, will be that I am a mental case but here goes my seizure anyway ...
With all of this playoff stuff being discussed consider this hybridization of sorts…
The major conferences are (from west to east): Pac Ten, WAC, Mountain West, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big East. Now that is eight conferences.
If the truly hard-core types want to expand this then take the two weakest conferences from the list above and have them play the two winners from the C-USA, Sun Belt, MAC and Major Independents (Army, Navy, Notre Dame and Western Kentucky).
Then play the representatives from those two weakest conferences against the two winners from the latter conferences/Independents winners resulting in two games producing two winners. If Notre Dame is any good this will be a cakewalk for them and not alter the sweet deal they currently have with the BCS by much. Granted it means two additional games for those conferences. That is the price you’ll have to pay for not being among the top six conferences in the nation. This might always hurt teams like the Sun Belt but even as good as Troy is they’re not a USC or a Texas – as is proven annually right now.
Based on SOS and “conference performance”, rank the CHAMPIONS ONLY from those conferences and play four games, two games and then one. Locate those matches at neutral sites geographically represented much as they are now.
The preliminary playoffs involving those two weakest conferences and the four “lesser” conferences/groupings will have the lower ranked team playing at the higher ranked teams stadium.
ROSE, FIESTA, COTTON, SUGAR, ORANGE, PEACH, HOLIDAY and RELIANT (Houston) stadiums represent the eight stadiums used in a rotation of bowls for the FINAL EIGHT bowl games. Like this year: ROSE, COTTON, PEACH and HOLIDAY for the Quarter finals. This followed by the FIESTA and SUGAR for the Semi-Finals and the ORANGE for the Final.
Other teams that didn’t win their conference crown will also play in some of these bowls but we’d only allow one team from each of the eleven conferences plus independents to play in the post season. So, conceivably, Oklahoma State and Missouri, Oregon and Arizona, LSU and Georgia, West Virginia and Rutgers, several from the ACC, Michigan State, Northwestern and Iowa, BYU and Air Force, Nevada and Fresno State and perhaps Rice would not go bowling. You’d probably have a total of 12 bowl games/playoffs much like they did in the ’60s and early ‘70s. If you are selected for a bowl, you’ll have to be a lot better than 6-6 and probably won’t qualify unless you’re 9-3. Yes, sponsors lose money with all of that advertising, but we’re not wasting our time watching ten permutations of the “Crap Bowl”. Less air travel and therefore – less “global warming” – a change I think would save our brains and make Gorebama a happier camper.
With all of this playoff stuff being discussed consider this hybridization of sorts…
The major conferences are (from west to east): Pac Ten, WAC, Mountain West, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big East. Now that is eight conferences.
If the truly hard-core types want to expand this then take the two weakest conferences from the list above and have them play the two winners from the C-USA, Sun Belt, MAC and Major Independents (Army, Navy, Notre Dame and Western Kentucky).
Then play the representatives from those two weakest conferences against the two winners from the latter conferences/Independents winners resulting in two games producing two winners. If Notre Dame is any good this will be a cakewalk for them and not alter the sweet deal they currently have with the BCS by much. Granted it means two additional games for those conferences. That is the price you’ll have to pay for not being among the top six conferences in the nation. This might always hurt teams like the Sun Belt but even as good as Troy is they’re not a USC or a Texas – as is proven annually right now.
Based on SOS and “conference performance”, rank the CHAMPIONS ONLY from those conferences and play four games, two games and then one. Locate those matches at neutral sites geographically represented much as they are now.
The preliminary playoffs involving those two weakest conferences and the four “lesser” conferences/groupings will have the lower ranked team playing at the higher ranked teams stadium.
ROSE, FIESTA, COTTON, SUGAR, ORANGE, PEACH, HOLIDAY and RELIANT (Houston) stadiums represent the eight stadiums used in a rotation of bowls for the FINAL EIGHT bowl games. Like this year: ROSE, COTTON, PEACH and HOLIDAY for the Quarter finals. This followed by the FIESTA and SUGAR for the Semi-Finals and the ORANGE for the Final.
Other teams that didn’t win their conference crown will also play in some of these bowls but we’d only allow one team from each of the eleven conferences plus independents to play in the post season. So, conceivably, Oklahoma State and Missouri, Oregon and Arizona, LSU and Georgia, West Virginia and Rutgers, several from the ACC, Michigan State, Northwestern and Iowa, BYU and Air Force, Nevada and Fresno State and perhaps Rice would not go bowling. You’d probably have a total of 12 bowl games/playoffs much like they did in the ’60s and early ‘70s. If you are selected for a bowl, you’ll have to be a lot better than 6-6 and probably won’t qualify unless you’re 9-3. Yes, sponsors lose money with all of that advertising, but we’re not wasting our time watching ten permutations of the “Crap Bowl”. Less air travel and therefore – less “global warming” – a change I think would save our brains and make Gorebama a happier camper.