it's long, but a great read... and so true!

Stop superconferences, start a football playoff
By Dan Wetzel - yahoo sports

Superconferences benefit no one. Not the current members, not the new ones, not the coaches, not the players and certainly not the fans. They are arranged marriages of convenience designed to stave off the tumult in college athletics and maximize future revenues, essentially making the rich slightly richer in ways few will notice. They wreck traditions. They cast aside rivalries. They so gerrymander geography, politicians blush.

The uncertainty of the wild weeks that have seen college affiliations and loyalties shift again has created a similar feeling across the country among the many administrators, coaches and commissioners I’ve spoken with: It stinks. It’s ugly. It’s unnecessary.



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MOTHER OF ALL PLAYOFFS '10-'11

Enjoy.

RULES

---All eleven conference champions get bid.
---Next 13 highest BCS ranked schools get bid, total of 24.
---Highest 8 seeds get first round bye.
---Seeds 9-24 begin First round action at higher seed's home field on third Saturday of December.
---Sweet 16 would play on fourth Saturday of December, once again at higher seed's home field.
---Elite 8 would play first weekend of January. This would begin use of "BCS" bowls, Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, and Orange.
---Final-Four would be second weekend of January, once again at 2 of the 4 "BCS" bowl sites.
---National Championship game would be, once again at 1 of the "BCS" bowl sites. Instead of 4+1, it would be 4+2+1.



FIRST-ROUND MATCHUPS
WEEK 1

#24 FIU at #9 MICHIGAN STATE
#23 MIAMI(OH) at #10 BOISE STATE
#22 UCONN at #11 LSU
#21 UCF at #12 MISSOURI
#20 SOUTH CAROLINA at #13 VIRGINIA TECH
#19 UTAH at #14 OKLAHOMA STATE
#18 NEBRASKA at #15 NEVADA
#17 TEXAS A&M at #16 ALABAMA



SWEET 16
WEEK 2

(Texas A&M/Alabama winner) at #1 AUBURN
(Nebraska/Nevada winner) at #2 OREGON
(Utah/Oklahoma State winner) at #3 TCU
(South Carolina/Virginia Tech winner) at #4 STANFORD
(UCF/Missouri winner) at #5 WISCONSIN
(UCONN/LSU winner) at #6 OHIO STATE
(Miami(OH)/Boise State winner) at #7 OKLAHOMA
(FIU/Michigan State winner) at #8 ARKANSAS



ELITE EIGHT
WEEK 3
Rose/Fiesta/Sugar/Orange


FINAL FOUR
WEEK4
(2 of the BCS bowls repeat host)


CHAMPIONSHIP
WEEK5
(1 of the BCS bowls repeat host)



SUMMARY

---This system would allow almost all of the other major bowl games outside of the "BCS" bowls to still serve a purpose, and for very good schools not making the tourney to still have a post-season.
---The "home game" format and the first round bye format are necessary to involve as many teams as I did. The reward of another home game has many benefits, financial or otherwise.
---In order for the major conferences to buy into a playoff, it would have to be seen as almost "rigged" in their favor. I believe first round byes, home field advantage, and multiple at-larges from each major conference, all based on strength of individual schools, is key to getting this passed.
---The major conferences will never go for a playoff that would guarantee equal representation to non-major conferences. You have to go to at least 24 teams to ensure that each major conference has at least 2 schools in the playoff on most years.
---Finally, the money generated by such a playoff would dwarf the basketball tourney revenues.