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RE: Will Ohio State out trigger a move to 8-team playoff?
It has become clear the CFP is not a playoff. It has devolved into the "Big Brand Name College Football Invitational". While I have zero interest in a G5 playoff---I am intrigiued by another option.

What if the G5 approached the NCAA about sponsoring the NCAA FBS National Football Championship. The post season event would be run and sponsored by the NCAA and would be open to ALL FBS Conferences. All conference champions are automatic qualifiers. A 10 man selection committee comprised of one representative from each FBS conference would fill in the rest of the 12 team field. Participating schools would earn "credits" for each round of participation (including the finals). The CFP would still exist---this tournament would simply represent an NCAA sanctioned alternative post season option to any team invited.

Years ago, the privately owned NIT tournament got the best college basketball teams and crowned the defacto national champion. In those days, the NCAA tournament was an afterthought (basically looked at the way we view the NIT today). The problem with the NIT is its field was very small and limited. The NCAA tournament offered a larger field and that wider participation eventually allowed the NCAA Tournament to become more and more popular--attracting better and better teams. Eventually, the NCAA Tournament surpassed the NIT in popularity and became the determiner of the "real" college basketball champion in most peoples mind.

This year, the potential top seeds of such a NCAA FBS Football National Championship tourney could be Ohio State, USC, and an undefeated UCF (along with 4 other conference champions). If properly packaged and capitalized, such a tournament might just be worth a heck of a lot of TV money. I could easily see such a more open and inclusive tournament becoming the preferred college football post season model of the American public VERY quickly. Now lets be honest---at first, the tournament would probably only attract G5 champs and P5/G5 schools not slated to appear in major CFP bowls. It would be dumb to violate the existing and lucrative CFP deals. Still--for those teams with no place in a CFP sponsored bowl----an NCAA Tournamant would provide an excellent alternative option to a one and done bottom tier bowl. The credit system would even provide the possibility to extra post season income. For the networks, such a tournament would provide an interesting drama played out over a month. That's a much more compelling slowly unfolding story line than a slate of random unrelated G5 vs G5 bowls. The more P5 participation--the better.

The most important differences between this idea and a G5 playoff?

One--it represents a shared G5/P5 postseason--no separation. Two---Because it is sponsored by the NCAA and open to ALL of FBS, the winner can legitmately call themselves the NCAA FBS National Football Champion. The larger field and more transparent (and equitable) qualification methodology would make the tournament very popular with college football fans. My belief is--even if the tournament never unseats the CFP, it will publicize and popularize the more open, transparent, and inclusive concepts to the point that the CFP would feel compelled by public opinion to adopt a very similar structure.
(This post was last modified: 12-04-2017 12:08 AM by Attackcoog.)
12-03-2017 11:33 PM
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RE: Will Ohio State out trigger a move to 8-team playoff? - Attackcoog - 12-03-2017 11:33 PM



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