Ok here goes.

I took the week 15 cbs bcs ranking and conference championships and came up with this.

This proposed bracket is a 32 team bracket that takes into account bcs rankings and conference champions. From every conference (counting independents as a conference). The bracket is 4 sets of 8. As follows.

NORTH
MAC
BIG 10
INDY

SOUTH
SEC
SBC
C-USA

EAST
BIG 12
BIG EAST
ACC

WEST
PAC12
WAC
MWC

Requirements are “Big 4” get 4 spots as long as all 4 are in top 25 or played in the conference championship game (call it the UCLA rule). Other two conferences and indys get 2 bids each conference champ and highest bcs ranked non champ or played in champion ship game. If “ big 4” don’t have 4 in top 25, or 3 in top 25 1 in conference championship then the highest ranked team left out gets the extra spot. This years bracket would set up like this…

North
MAC- Northern illionois, Ohio
Big 10 – Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nebraska, Michigan
Indy- BYU, Notre Dame

South
SEC- LSU, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas
SBC- Arkansas state, Louisiana
CUSA- Southern miss, Houston

East
Big12 Oklahoma state, Kansas State, Baylor, Oklahoma
Big east- Cincinati, West Virginia
ACC – Clemson, Vtech

West
Pac12- Oregon, UCLA, Stanford, * Pen State*
WAC- La Tech, Utah State
MWC- TCU, BSU


Each section breaks down like this:

North

1. #10 Wisconsin VS 8. #64 ohio
2. #13 Michigan VS 7. #34 Northern illionois
3. #17 Michigan State VS 6. #32 Birmingham Young
4. #20 Nebraska VS #30 Notre dame




SOUTH

1. #1 LSU VS 8. #63 Louisiana
2. #2 Alabama VS 7.#35 Arkansas State
3. #6 Arkansas VS 6. #19 houston
4. #16 Georgia VS 5. #21 Southern Miss


East

1. #3 OSU VS 8. #27 Cincinitati
2. #8 KSU VS 7. #23 West Virginia
3. # 15 Clemson VS # Oklahoma
4. # 11 Virginia Tech VS #12 Baylor

West

1. #5 Oregon VS 8. #72 Utah State
2. #4 Stanford VS 7. #37 LA Tech
3. #7 Boisie State VS 6. #54 UCLA
4. # 18 TCU VS 5. *** # 22 Penn State ****

Penn State* gets in because Pac12 didn’t have 4 teams in top 25 or play in championship game that were eligible for post season play. So the highest ranked team not already included gets the at large spot.

Comments??

How do you divide the money?

(03-20-2012 04:26 AM)Fanatical Wrote:  How do you divide the money?

This should be question #1, #2, #3 and #4 regarding any playoff proposal.

Constructing playoff proposals is the easy part. When the conferences talk about whether conference champs should be included or if games should be played at neutral sites or on campus, those are relatively easy issues to find compromises on. It might take awhile to finalize simply because there are so many parties involved, but the actual format of how a 4-team playoff would work (and a 4-team playoff as opposed to 8 or more is really all that's relevant, as it's a miracle in and of itself that you've got the Big Ten and Pac-12 talking about it) only has a relative handful of ways of working and doesn't really require that much movement from different interests.

How the money is divided is the REALLY what matters. That's where the parties that matter are going to dig in their heels and there are literally an infinite number of ways of calculating it. Until you address how the money is divided (and "it will be divided equally among all 11 FBS conferences" or "it will be similar to the NCAA Tournament model" are nice in theory but complete non-starters to the most powerful conferences that matter), then you really don't have a proposal. That's the single biggest problem/mistake that I've seen with 99% of the hundreds (if not thousands) of playoff proposals that I've seen over the years. You don't need to convince me as a fan or someone that runs one of the non-AQ conferences that this is a good idea. Instead, the people that you need to convince that it's a good idea are Jim Delany and Mike Slive. If you want a *realistic* playoff proposal, the emphasis should be on how the elites will benefit from it as opposed to the plebeians. It might not be fair, but that's the difference between a pie-in-the-sky proposal and a realistic one.

(03-20-2012 04:26 AM)Fanatical Wrote:  How do you divide the money?

UH gets 50% of the revenue and the other 50 is split evenly

32 team playoff won't happen anytime soon. Too much of a leap from current configuration.

(03-20-2012 02:56 PM)cougardave Wrote:  

(03-20-2012 04:26 AM)Fanatical Wrote:  How do you divide the money?

UH gets 50% of the revenue and the other 50 is split evenly

Don't think that's gonna fly, my fellow Coog. Nice try though.

I say take TOP 4 teams per BCS rankings from each of the 6 Major Conferences = 24
Then 3 from Alliance, 2 from MAC, 2 from SBC and 1 from WAC, Indy. One play-in game (two lowest rank) = 8

NORTH - BIG 10, MAC, SBC
EAST - BIG EAST, ACC
SOUTH - SEC, BIG 12
WEST - PAC 12, Alliance, WAC
Indy replaces Play-in Loser unless it loses the Play-in Game.