(12-04-2014 10:24 PM)49erlew Wrote: (12-04-2014 09:48 PM)perimeterpost Wrote: (12-04-2014 04:02 PM)stever20 Wrote: (12-04-2014 03:56 PM)perimeterpost Wrote: 10 Conferences = 10 conference champions.
Bottom 4 conference champs play a play-in game, 2 winners join top 6 conf champs for Round of 8.
Puts huge emphasis on winning conference championship which can be decided with ZERO influence from off the field entities. The way it should be.
Just stop. Face the facts- no playoff is going to ONLY be conference champions. PERIOD. You can whine all you want- but that battle was fought and lost. Sorry.
you're the one whining, I'm the one offering a sensible solution to a problem. There was no battle lost, nothing is over, the problem of inequality persists.
You're offering a solution that, in my opinion, is brilliant.
Elite conferences still get to enjoy a deck that is stacked in their favor... if you're a top two seed, you're going to play a G5 champion that just had to win a play-in game... ride that gravy train to the next round.
On the other hand, even though the deck is still stacked against the G5 schools who'll undoubtedly have to make their way through a play-in game before taking down a #1 or #2 seed... there's still a path to it. Personally, that's all I want - for there to be an institutionalized opportunity for every team that takes the field at the beginning of the season. That has never been the case.
It's really not that brilliant. A one game proposition does not necessarily show the best team winning. The NBA knows this. Major League Baseball knows this, they have to win a series because everyone knows that winning a single game does not show that a team is better than the other. It just shows they were better on that day.
Now football is an extremely rough sport so we cant do a series between each team. So we have to make due. What that means is that the Committee is likely to Never give a guaranteed position in the Tournament in return for winning a particular game.
We have seen how teams havnt had to have stellar seasons to make it to their conference championship games. That means the chance exists that a situation could arise that no one wants.
Imagine the 8-4 Wisconsin Badgers that won the Big Ten Conference championship game getting a shot at being National Champion? While that type of system works for the NFL a la the New York Giants, I don't think folks want College Football to just be a lesser form of Professional Football.
It's not going to happen. Want me to tell you why? Because right now the committee can put as much or as little emphasis upon winning a Conference Championship game as they want. If their hands are tied with a put in place rule that Conference Championship game winners are the ones that get in then we are going to have some very ugly situations sometimes.
That changes though if we see Conference Championship games become Conference Tournaments.
Suddenly if what appears to be a mediocre team wins twice in a row in the Conference Tournament then they Do have more plausibility.
Point being? If you want Conference Championship Game winners to have autobids, then you better start becoming a big fan of the idea of Conference Tournaments.
It is never happening with how things are now.