(08-17-2014 12:25 PM)Kruciff Wrote: They already do. It's FCS.
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Beat me to it.
But the OP wants the same for FBS.
Problem with that is it's hypocritical to say 'fcs (also D1 NCAA) teams can't be in "OUR" NCAA-D1 football championship tournament'.
Football being weekly, not almost daily like basketball and baseball, precludes us from including all conference champs plus a few worthy at-larges.....unless, what? We shorten the regular season to 8 games???
In order to include all 23(?) NCAA-D1 (football) conference champs, we could do Gold, Silver, and Bronze post season tournaments.
Gold tournament would get 60% of the entire playoff money....Silver = 30%....Bronze = 10%.
Each of the three tournaments would have 6 to 8 auto bids being the conference champ of the top 6 to 8 conferences each end of season per the committee going to the Gold Touney (+ enough at-larges to make 16). The next 6 to 8 strongest conferences' champs (+ at-larges for 16) to the Silver....the remaining bottom 7 to 11 conferences' champs (+ to 16) to the Bronze.....at-larges would be per committee aided strongly by an RPI system like in basketball.
Back to the 60/30/10%.....
Say the entire playoff revenue pot for all 3 tournaments were $100 million (very lowball est)....
$60MM to Gold Tourney, $30MM to Silver, and $10MM to Bronze....will be dispersed in each tourney like basketball credits except each conference would earn 3 different sets of credits over a rolling 6-year period: Gold, Silver and Bronze credits.
Major "BCS" Bowls would be used in the Gold Tournament's semis and NCG as currently, with the 4 other non-semi BCS bowls getting the best of the first and second round Gold Tourney losers.