(01-07-2019 02:29 PM)herdfan129 Wrote: We need to push for an 8 team playoff with an auto bid to the top G5 regardless of ranking.
I know it isn't perfect and we will always get the 8 seed but it doesn't matter. The fact you would actually have a small chance each year would be a game changer.
I agree we need the Playoff to expand to at least 8. I don't know if we can get an auto-bid for the top G5 but I'd like to see it guaranteed that the top G5 will be included if they finish in the top 8.
To make that happen I think they need to do a composite poll and combine the AP poll, Coaches poll and use the average of the old BCS computers for the third poll and get rid of the committee all together. It would still have the human (eye test) factor but that would at least be balanced by cold hard numbers.
Top 16 teams would meet in a major bowl with the top 8 meeting in playoff bowls. The four winners from those could move on to meet in two Semi-Final Bowls and the two winners from that meet in the Championship game.
Championship game (7-10 days after the Semi-Finals)
Semi-Finals (7-10 days after New Years Day)
Orange Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Quarter Finals (New Years Day)
Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Cotton Bowl
Peach Bowl
* Semi-Final Bowls and Quarter Final Bowls would rotate from year to year
Teams Ranked 9-16 would be placed in the following Bowls (played on New Years Eve)
Sun Bowl
Gator Bowl
Citrus Bowl
Liberty Bowl
All other Bowls could remain as is but the NCAA would mandate to be officially sanctioned they would have to agree to play the contest prior to New Years Eve thus elevating the importance of the 8 NYE/NYD Bowl games.