(07-24-2022 02:29 PM)Maize Wrote:  

(07-24-2022 01:48 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  Let's assume the 6+6 format, or a straight 12 format, with December first round games and New Year's Day quarterfinals. (One QF on either Jan 2 or Dec 31). 2 Semifinals in January and then a National Championship game. And at least 7 days between rounds--nobody should be playing a playoff game on 6 days rest.

CFP honcho Bill Hancock has said that the NCG is on a Monday because fans have to travel, and a Monday is at least weekend-adjacent.

The NFL season will now run 18 weeks, with 2 Saturday games on Week 18, and 6 playoff games on Wild Card Weekend--2 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.

So Saturday is out, Sunday was never an option. And now at least one Monday is now spoken for.

That leaves Friday, and since there are only so many hours in prime time, a game on Thursday.

So something like

First Round:
2nd/3rd Saturday in December. 2 games on campus
3rd/4th Saturday in December. 2 games on campus

Quarterfinals
New Years Day (or Jan 2). 12:30 QF bowl, 5:00 QF Rose Bowl, 8:30 QF Bowl.
New YEars Eve: QF Bowl (If Jan 1 is a Sunday, 4th QF is probably on Tues Jan 3)

Semifinals
SEcond Thursday in January (Jan 8-14)
Friday, Day after Second Thurdsay (Jan 9-15)

National Championship Game
Friday, 8 days after Second Thursday in January. (Jan 16-22)

Comments? Did I miss something important?

I'm assuming the Rose Bowl gets a permanent QF slot, and lets the other 5 NY6 bowls rotate the 3 QF's and 2 semis, and the semifinal bowls don't play a New Years' Day/Eve/Week game.

EDIT: Here it is in more calendar-ish form. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

The Rose Bowl with the Pac 10 basically gutted should be open .... you can leave the caveat that if a Big Ten School makes it that far they go to the Rose Bowl ... New Years Day and same time slot ...

I figure the Rose Bowl has to schedule months/years in advance. They can't be moving the game and parade or not, based on how the Big Ten champ ranks on the Sunday after the CCGs.

Either they rotate or not. If they don't rotate, it's simple. They're a QF, and they get the Big Ten champ if available.
IF they do rotate, it's less simple. Either the Rose Bowl gets knocked off New Years DAy (or mon jan 2) every 3 years, or they play the Rose Bowl on NYD and knock a second QF to Dec 31/ Jan 2.

The simplest solution is to slot the Rose Bowl in its traditional 5 p.m. slot, quarterfinal every year, and leave them out of the semifinal rotation.

EDIT: This doesn't fulfill everything the Rose Bowl wanted in their memo, but you can't have everything.
Rose Bowl wanted an annual quarterfinal game AND a share of the semifinal / NCG rotation. But I think the 5 p.m. New Years' Day timeslot is more important to them than getting to host a semifinal on a Thursday or Friday the week after New YEars.