(03-30-2013 12:36 PM)Big_Man Wrote: (03-30-2013 12:22 PM)armour248 Wrote: It's really not that difficult to understand. The basketball system allows teams to move on based on winning games in a tournament format. The football system uses a formula that most people don't understand to dictate who gets to play who in a one off game. FGCU and Wichita State have played and beaten the teams in front of them to move forward. We didn't beat a single top 16 team last year and our SOS was pathetic. If NCAA football used a 16 team playoff, NIU got seeded and beat Michigan and Alabama to move into the semifinals we would get the "cinderella' effect too. The entire country would learn about our team in those few weeks and the media would run stories turning our players into the lovable, hardworking, under appreciated guys...just like FGCU got for the past 10 days. The average fan probably couldn't name more than one player on our team going into the OB.
Agreed, it is the system people hate, not the team. Honestly, I couldn't name a single player on FSU's team and aside from some Big 10 teams I don't know many players around the college football landscape. I am a Pro-sports fan first and foremost.
I checked out the other link offerring a 64 team playoff for football, which I thought was unnecessary. It would take half a season to play out the tournament.
In the proposed simulation, they had NIU playing Toledo. They already played in the season, and the MAC Championship should mean something, so all that is needed is for the Huskies to represent the MAC.
Here is my quick solution:
In FBS, you have 11 conferences and independants. Make the Independants a conference.
The champions and only the champions in each conference go to the tournament. I don't care the top four teams in the nation are all in the SEC, only one goes to the tourney. The rest of the winning teams can go to non-tournament bowl games.
Give a first round bye to ACC, Big Ten, Big Twelve, and PAC-12 champs. The other eight champs play in the first round. The winners then take on the big conferences.
Perhaps the non tourney bowl games could contribute to conference rankings in the following year's tourney.
If the Huskies end up playing FSU in the tourney, Herbstreit can't complain about how someone else should have been
chosen. The Huskies would have played their way there, just like Wichita State played their way into the Final Four.